Word: reconsideration
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The court of appeals ruled, however, that automobile and gasoline advertising on television may be in the same class as cigarette advertising, that is, "controversial," and therefore subject to the fairness doctrine. Environmentalists, in other words, rate equal time. Earlier, the Federal Communications Commission had decided that ads for high...
Citizens' Revolt. If anything can arouse an apathetic electorate at present, it is a sense of deception added to economic malaise. The state of Connecticut is a case in point. With scant warning, the Democratic-controlled state legislature passed a personal income tax on the last frenzied night of...
The day after the University Hall bust in 1969, he said, "This is the saddest day of my life. It's terrible to see the community you've been involved in all your life turned on its ears." Twenty-four hours earlier, he had joined three other deans in asking...
Thus, when the Lower House met last week to reconsider the election bill, tempers were already high. Opposition Deputies taunted the Thieu forces, claiming that the President was buying votes for as much as 700,000 piasters ($2,545). In an effort to force a roll-call vote, Ky Supporter...
The crisis began on his seventh day back in the capital, when Lon Nol abruptly resigned. In bewilderingly rapid order he was 1) acclaimed an official "national hero" by the legislature, 2) made Cambodia's first marshal of the army, and 3) entreated by Chief of State Cheng Heng...