Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Holding their final caucus on the all-but-passed civil rights bill, Southern Senators decided that a filibuster would be both futile and dangerous: it might result in a harsher bill, it might bring about a change in the Senate's cloture rule, and it would certainly build up ill will that could only harm the Southern cause in future years. Among the first to agree with the no-filibuster decision was South Carolina's Strom Thurmond, the 1948 Dixiecrat candidate for President...
...voices shouted Merdeka (freedom), the Union Jack slowly fluttered down to be replaced by a red, white and blue flag very like that of the U.S., save that instead of 48 stars it bore the single star and crescent of Islam. After 83 years of British rule, Malaya was an independent nation...
...Turks, the Mamelukes of Egypt, the Crusaders, the Mongols of Hulagu Khan and, finally, in 1516, the Ottoman Turks. Not until World War I, when Lawrence of Arabia and Sherif Hussein of Mecca set Arab nationalism ablaze, did ravaged Syria at last emerge from the long night of Ottoman rule. And then, at the moment when the Arabs thought the land at last theirs, they discovered that the British had blandly assigned Syria to France and Iraq to themselves. Under a League of Nations mandate, the French treated Syria as a colony, exploiting and repressing it. When a nationalist revolt...
...bonuses last year despite a $19 million dip in Bethlehem's profits. Said A.I.M., arguing that such bonuses might be better spent elsewhere: in too many cases of inside boards, "small stockowners who constitute the majority of investors have little recourse except to follow the rough old rule: 'If you don't like what we are doing, sell your stock...
...pleased that Laura's blood returned to near normal and she soon showed no signs of active leukemia, the doctors refused to predict how long the improvement might last. ¶ Psychiatrists who seek membership in the powerful American Psychoanalytic Association must first be analyzed themselves, according to the rule laid down by Freud (who analyzed himself). For years many psychiatrists have deducted the cost of such analysis as a business expense against federal income tax. Now the Internal Revenue Service has cracked down, holding that the membership is sought for prestige, is therefore no proper business expense. Two psychiatrists...