Word: rule
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Though the Democrats have controlled the Arkansas statehouse for 92 straight years, the odds today are no better than 50-50 that they can round out a full century in office. The first serious threat to one-party rule came in 1964, when Republican Winthrop Rockefeller polled 43% of the vote against Governor Orval Faubus. G.O.P. hopes soared higher still last spring, when after nearly twelve years in office the still-formidable Governor decided to step down at year's end to rest and-some suspect-to mount a campaign against Democratic Senator J. William Fulbright in 1968. Last...
...slayer gets nothing-a rule sometimes criticized as "unwarranted judicial legislation...
...verdict was a landmark decision for the whites in southern Africa. South Africa can continue to go its apartheid way in South West Africa. Rhodesia's Ian Smith can take new heart in his independence fight against Britain. And the Portuguese can rest easier about their white-minority rule in Mozambique and Angola...
Since Vermont statutes do not cover such situations, the probate court merely invoked the old common-law rule that a slayer shall not profit from his crime. Charlotte stubbornly appealed to the Vermont Supreme Court on the ground, among others, that the rule applied only to heirs convicted of murder-not manslaughter...
...William Lyons, 64, founder and chairman of Jaguar Cars Ltd., has always been one of Britain's most fiercely independent automakers. Known around his Coventry headquarters as the "Headmaster" for his autocratic rule, he has scoffed at the industry-wide merger trend, maintained that Jaguar would not go on the block "in my lifetime." Last week he made a surprising U-turn: after two years of quiet negotiations, Sir William and British Motor Corp. Chairman Sir George Harriman announced that B.M.C. will buy out Jaguar in a $51 million stock transfer deal...