Word: rule
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...McCarthy," a high-powered drive involving the dispersal of 55 field agents around the country to build up pressure on delegates. Telephone and letter-writing campaigns are being aimed at convention-bound Democrats. Lawsuits are being planned in some states to break loose votes now bound by the unit rule. For the convention, there is talk of challenging delegations from perhaps 14 states on grounds that McCarthy people were improperly deprived of seats. There is also the possibility of a platform fight over Viet...
...widely known as "the Thief of Baghdad." A poor administrator and weak boss, Aref bore the additional stigma of last year's defeat in the Six-Day War with Israel. He offended many citizens by decreeing further delays in Iraq's decade-long "transition" from military rule to parliamentary democracy, seemed unable to get the oil-rich economy moving. Chief among those who wished to bring about a change in stagnating Iraq were the members of the right-leaning but revolutionary Baath party, who had not tasted power since Abdul Salem Aref booted them out of his government...
Throughout Francisco Franco's long dictatorial rule, Spain's press has usually been kept as docile as his political opposition. Then, two years ago, the Generalissimo signaled a change. By abolishing some forms of censorship and adopting a more relaxed press code, his government seemed to be saying that it would tolerate freedom of information-up to a point. That point has now apparently been passed...
...matter how much economists slide-rule the economy, many imponderables remain. One is the U.S. corporation and how it will respond to another swerve in policy. The surtax will have some bad effects for companies: it will cut into corporate profits and decrease spending for improvements. At the same time, the new tax ought to make some change in the tenor of company-union relations. Up to now, when labor negotiations are fiercer than usual, the advantage has been with labor. With full employment and rising prices, unions have been able to negotiate contracts with an average increase...
...most fundamental-and fuzzy-student point was that the "rule of law" should be abandoned because the sit-ins were merely an exercise of the First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly. Said Frankel: "Arguments like this are at best useless (at worst deeply pernicious) nonsense in courts of law. It is surely non-sense of the most literal kind to argue that a court of law should subordinate the 'rule of law' in favor of more 'fundamental principles' of revolutionary action designed forcibly to oust governments, courts and all. This self-contradictory sort...