Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...premises without a warrant; last week the court barred his prosecution. Also in 1963, Norman See received a suspended $100 fine for not allowing a Seattle fire inspector to check his locked warehouse for possible violations. In voiding See's conviction, the court applied the warrant rule to private commercial property as well as private dwellings...
...concern was financing industry, and nobody wielded more authority in that field than Abs. Quite literally, his word could make or break both upstarts and industrial giants. It was Abs's refusal to advance a $25 million loan that early this year ended five generations of one-man rule at the Krupp industrial complex. "Our influence is one of order, not of power," insists Abs, "as in solitaire one tries to make everything come out even." In his busy retirement, Abs will try to make things come out even at ailing Krupp: among other jobs, he was recently named...
...clarification of the University's policy. There were many freshmen who thought that Harvard just looked the other way, like it does with liquor. They thought that since there had been no stories in the Crimson of students punished for using pot or LSD and no mention in the rule book of drugs, that maybe the University didn't mind...
This view is supported by precedent in the history of the House. Rule 238 of Cannon's Precedents states that it "is the custom of the House to defer final action against members under criminal charges pending disposition in the court of last resort." Thus, even if the powers of exclusion and expulsion were not maintained distinct -- giving Congress dangerously broad discretionary power -- the treatment of Powell, if based on his legal troubles in New York, remains unjustified. His libel case is still under appeal...
...narrow literary intellectual, or he ignores obvious holes in his theories. It is provincial today to say "language is the great container of culture." What about other forms of communication-music? painting? mathematics? Mumford describes kings as the first technological totalitarians-but tends to forget that kings could rule only from bases of commonly held beliefs and aspirations. How does Mumford know that "mil lennia passed [after Paleolithic man] before man would take the life of his own kind in cold blood...