Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressional districts sometimes vary by 100 per cent in size, and Congress seems intent on suspending the Court-ordered redistricting until 1972 when the 1970 census will be available; worst of all, Congress refuses to allow the 800,000 residents of the District of Columbia to have local home rule or representation in the U.S. Congress to eliminate these voting inequities, but, so far, opponents have used procedural irresponsibility to block them...
...redistricting case, Congress had impeded the implementation of a Court decision. In the D.C. home rule case, Congress must take the initiative and has consistently refused to do so. The President has proposed a replacement of the city's three-man Board of Commissioners with a single commissioner and a nine-man council. The proposal would not give Washington citizens the right to even their own city government, but it would at least centralize authority and attract a competent commissioner...
...things have action," he says proudly today. "They're moving, quivering." To get this effect, he and his assistant, Larry McCabe, build his pieces on a frame of chicken wire, wood and metal, cover this with burlap drapery and swathe the whole in rough plaster. As a rule, the work is cast in bronze and finished in patinas of brown, green or gold only when a customer looms on the horizon, for casting costs can run up to $20,000 per piece...
...carefully monitored by coaches armed with timing charts and stop watches. But there were no rabbits at Bakersfield, and the pace was so slow on the first lap that Ryun reluctantly decided to do his own pacemaking. His time at the half-1 min. 59 sec.-appeared to rule out any chance of a new record. Then Jim turned it on. With a full 600 yds. to go, he began to sprint, flashed through the last quarter in a fantastic 53.5 sec., and broke the tape at 3 min. 51.1 sec.-paring .2 sec. off his own world mark...
...comments Bank, "is that we're all in different cities." Salaries are generally figured on age levels and are much the same. The family also maintains harmony with an informal "Committee of the Third Generation," which passes on the promotions and salaries of younger members. The unwritten rule is that when one of his children is under committee discussion, the father involved has to leave the room...