Word: redressing
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...power to investigate based or autocratic official decisions, as well as inequities in the law. To be known officially as the Parliamentary Commissioner for Investigations, he will be able to take action on his own or on the complaint of any citizen who, for a modest fee ($2.80), seeks redress from unfair treatment by officialdom...
...highest chip: $2,800) for four chemmy and eight poker tables. In return for a cut of the take. Businessman Holland persuaded foxy old Isidor Abbecassis. Le Touquet's casino czar, to preside over his remodeled Pandemonium. Since by English law the house has no legal redress when a gambler's check bounces, Abbecassis was hired mainly for his intimate knowledge of Britain's better-heeled bettors. "These Frenchies." says Holland, "have card-indexed steel filing cabinets in their heads." "These English." says one of his croupiers, "are crazy. They bet pounds as if they were francs...
...business community remains in deep shock. In one district of Pusan alone, 400 shops have closed. The junta-imposed embargo on virtually all imports remains in force. Coke and U.S. cigarettes are out, and domestic "reconstruction cigarettes" now lead the field. The import restrictions are theoretically necessary to redress South...
Bell & Howell Close-Up (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The program documents the daily lives of two U.S. diplomats, one in Chile, the other in East Pakistan, attempting to redress the notion that the Foreign Service is a gay and easy life: the cookies they push are sometimes hardtack...
Instead of centralized government action to redress the needs of our country, Buckley urged either state or voluntary action. If 95 per cent of people want social security, let them have it, but without coercing the other five per cent, he said. "We have a national economy and we ought to have a national government." Schlesinger countered. Labeling Buckley's views anarchistic, he charged that it would make ordered society impossible...