Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beneath crystal chandeliers inside Hradcany Castle, on a high hill over looking Prague, the party and government leaders of Czechoslovakia gathered to observe the 50th anniversary of their independence from Austro-Hungarian rule. The moment was solemn - and cautious. "I beg you not to demonstrate," Josef Smrkovský, President of the National Assembly, had pleaded with the students of Prague's Charles University. "Would it be surprising if tanks appeared? If you demonstrate, we might all be sorry." Most of the university heeded the warning, marking the day quietly with a philosophy-department "teach-in" against the Russian occupation...
Douglas Robie, president of the USOC, called Coach Harry Parker in to ask about the purpose of the letters. One committee member, Arthur Whattle, wanted to send the crew home from Colorado for these letters, but the committee limited itself to advising the crew that they were violating rule nine of the Olympic constitution by "disrupting the team...
...crew members examined the rule and found that it referred only to the duty to "behave as Americans" so they rejected the committee's restrictions...
...letter and the spirit of Miranda. And they are under little pressure to change their ways. Last spring, reacting to the politics of "law and order," Congress passed an Omnibus Crime Control Act that contains a direct attack on Supreme Court doctrine. Never mind Miranda's strict rules in federal prosecutions, says one section of the law; now judges need only consider "all the circumstances" in which a confession was obtained be fore they rule on whether it was voluntary. That was, in effect, the formula before Miranda. When the first test case reaches the Supreme Court, the justices...
...Keeton-O'Connell plan aims to minimize legal hassles over settlements but preserves the policyholder's right to go to court to ask for damages in certain cases. The A.I.A. plan, by contrast, would rule out virtually all liability suits. It would also specifically bar payments for "pain and suffering," which presently account for some of the most generous damage settlements arising out of auto accidents. The practice of suing for pain and suffering, charged the A.I.A., leads to "dramatization of injury" and "panders to the 'jackpot urge...