Word: regardless
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Johnson's formula would not alter the traditional unit-rule system by which a candidate gets all of a state's electoral vote regardless of how small his popular plurality. Thus a nominee could still conceivably get a majority of the nationwide popular vote and yet lose the election. However, since it would make modest improvements without involving drastic change, there is a fair chance that this amendment will win the two-thirds majorities in Congress necessary to send it to the states for ratification...
Most old-line labor leaders insist that workers should have the right to strike -regardless of the consequences. At A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany's headquarters, the reaction to Reuther's proposal was a sharp "no comment-with the emphasis on the no." All the same, Administration officials are hopeful that Reuther's speech may help persuade liberals in Congress to support President Johnson's upcoming legislation to outlaw strikes by public employees. Said Assistant Secretary of Labor James J. Reynolds: "Here is an indication, even in the labor ranks, of changes that will have...
...facto segregation, as they please. In a still unique state-court reading of the 14th Amendment, Gibson ruled in Jackson v. Pasadena that California school boards can no longer merely refrain from discrimination. "It is up to the school boards," he said, "to eliminate racial imbalance in schools regardless of its cause." In 1963 Traynor spoke for his court in issuing another U.S. precedent: the idea that even non-negligent manufacturers now have "strict liability" to consumers injured by their defective products (TIME...
Dershowitz called for the establishment of a pool of state-employed lawyers to be on call at all police stations. This would insure, he said, that all defendents would have immediate access to counsel, regardless of ability...
...Coincidence. It was the distribution of Burkitt's lymphoma that first implicated a virus as its possible cause. Named for British-born Surgeon Denis P. Burkitt, 53, who first described its prevalence and unusual distribution, it attacks children regardless of race, in high-rainfall, equatorial areas of low altitude. The geography of the disease is strikingly similar to that of yellow fever. And yellow fever has long been recognized as a viral infection carried by a mosquito...