Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plunge the state into fiscal disarray merely by passing around petitions. Nor is there any easy way to prevent them. Because the right of referendum is guaranteed by the Constitution, a referendum cannot be mounted to eliminate it. The only way to change it is by the tortuous process of constitutional amendment...
...cruel and unusual" punishment, which is explicitly barred by the Eighth Amendment. "And the less frequently it occurs," says Wulf, "the more cruel and unusual it becomes." Another argument claims that the death penalty serves no interest of society and is therefore unnecessary punishment in violation of due process of law. In the Florida suit, which seeks to do away with capital punishment on behalf of all 51 men on the state's death row, it is additionally contended that juries, which have no say over sentencing in noncapital cases, decide for or against the death penalty with "unlimited...
...impurities by washing with water, any remaining water will react to create a minute quantity of acetic acid-vinegar. This accounts for the vinegary odor and some of the irritating effect of much fresh aspirin and of most old aspirin. So Bayer uses a more costly, water-free process...
...less than half its normal rate of 10,300,000 bbl. a day. And the continued shutdown of the Suez Canal forced Middle East-to-Europe oil shipments on a costly detour around the Cape of Good Hope, sorely taxing the world's tanker capacity in the process...
...skyline, and a hundred other spectacular Canadian sights. The exhibit's faults are derived from its virtues. Except for the African chameleon, there are few living creatures who can see in back of their heads; in theory, a film in the round is a dazzling Disney process, but at any given moment, 180° of it are wasted...