Word: prods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imposed Time Limit. The chief prod for solving court congestion may well be the Sixth Amendment's guarantee of a speedy trial. So far, federal courts have found nothing unconstitutional about delays of a year and sometimes more. In a pending case, however, the nine judges of a federal appeals court are being asked by New York City, among other interested parties, to define the speedy-trial right-for the first time-by setting a six-month limit between arrest and trial. Under the proposed rule, a defendant could request that the charges be dropped after the deadline unless...
...have no sympathy for those corporate laggards who transact business as usual, waiting for the governmental whip to prod them into action. If big business needs guidance in formulating social acceptance programs, why doesn't it seek out political and social scientists and ecologists with the same zeal it displays in wooing accountants and engineers...
SWEDEN. The country is a model for feminist groups around the world. In order to prod husbands into encouraging wives to take a job, the tax laws have been rewritten so that next year married men will be taxed at the same rate as bachelors-a financial jolt to men with non-working wives. Stay-at-home wives are frowned on as "luxury housewives" by the ruling Social Democrats. Sweden's education system recently has been deliberately changed to eliminate the differences in the assumed "sex roles." Schoolboys do needlework and study homemaking, while the girls take courses...
Several times throughout the night, a handful of youths in the Common picked up rocks and tried to prod the crowd toward the Square. "Come on, I need a shirt," one shouted. But the crowd stayed...
Invasion from Outside. The Maoists' guerrilla warfare could hardly have come at a worse time for Fiat. So far this year, work stoppages have cost the company more than 2.25 million man-hours. Of those, 1.5 million hours were lost in walkouts called by unions to prod the government, not Fiat, into improving housing and transportation and reducing taxes and inflation. Another 250,000 hours were wasted in unofficial strikes led by the Maoists. Result: Fiat has had to scale down this year's production target from 1.8 million vehicles to 1.55 million, and it has a backlog...