Word: redresses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cash prize will go to the contestant who best suggests how one can "obtain redress or 'satisfaction' from the computer systems of credit card companies, government agencies, banks, the F. B. I., ad nauseum...
Even in the age of chronic protest, few Americans know the rules for public demonstrations. It is not surprising. The First Amendment firmly guarantees every person the right to speak freely, assemble peaceably and petition the Government for redress of grievances. Yet there is no constitutional right to express dissent at any particular time or place. State or municipal governments are free to restrict almost any public speech or conduct that clearly threatens to incite violence or impede some of society's other legitimate interests...
...argue all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Barkley, an unemployed truck driver, had done just that-and lost. At the airport he gave his wife a long, lingering kiss, then boarded TWA Flight 486 for Washington, a trip he had made several times before in seeking redress of his grievances...
...serving the interests of militarism in our country or the interests of Vietnamese rulers. What are they to do when at the same time environment deterioration, overpopulation, starvation and a host of other worthy causes demand attention? The natural idealism of youth makes them cry out for redress...
...protest unless he is in the last stages of revolt against his own condition," says Aikman. "For me, the inescapable melancholy of the incident was twofold: that any student could be so distressed by the law of the land as to consider such chilling destructiveness the only source of redress, and that this sort of act is now a national commonplace...