Word: proper
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...University contended that it could not arbitrarily recognize any one union over the other. It insisted on an election conducted by the Massachusetts State Labor Relations Board as the means of determining the proper representative...
Anguilla is hardly the proper setting for revolution. A 34-sq.-mi. coral dot in the Leeward Islands east of Puerto Rico, the island has rested languidly for 300 years under British rule. Without electricity or telephones, the 5,000 Anguillans earn a meager living from fishing, working a salt pond and occasional smuggling. In February, Britain tried to loosen its ties with this poor dependency by linking Anguilla with two larger and more prosperous islands to form the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla federation, retaining control only of foreign affairs and defense...
...protect civil rights demonstrators who violate legitimate local laws. On obscenity, the court continued to find most works protected by the First Amendment. But it did suggest that distasteful purveying of borderline works or selling to minors may well be legitimate criminal offenses if legislation is drawn with proper narrowness. On individual rights, the court found that a U.S. citizen cannot be deprived of his citizenship for voting in another country's election...
...chemicals and resins. But it was family-owned and vertically run, suffered from sluggish marketing. Hathaway horizontalized operations; he split the company into three domestic and two international divisions and set higher sales targets. "We're reaching for $100 million," he says, "but $200 million in sales is proper for a structure of this size, and $800 million is about maximum. Our objective is not to be the biggest chemical company, just the most profitable...
...brought up on S.S. Pierce's groceries," remarked Oliver Wendell Holmes a century ago when a rival merchant sought the patronage of that autocrat's famous breakfast table, "and I don't dare change." A bulwark of proper Bostonian life for most of its 136 years, the haute cuisine grocery chain has long filled an epicurean niche in U.S. gastronomy. With its own coat of arms adorning a distinctive red label on canned goods, and the largest line (5,000 items) of privately packed fancy foods in the world, S.S. Pierce sells its delicacies not only through...