Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems that even though the Patriots have trouble filling Alumni Stadium on Sunday afternoons, they crave the facilities at Harvard, because it would allow them to stay in Boston. There is a rule that requires member clubs to have a stadium that can seat 50,000, and Alumni Stadium can't come near that capacity...
...According to the rule of thumb of missile strategists, one missile power takes advantage of another by attacking its silos instead of its population centers: this way, the other nation's retalitory power is immediately demolished. The ability to do this is termed first-strike capability. A non-aggressor nation, on the other hand, merely wants to forestall attack. This it does by aiming its missles at potential agressor's cities as a retalitory threat: then it protects these retalitory missiles with ABMS. This is described as a second-strike capability...
...prestige of the Greek regime. But it will not affect its firm hold on power in Greece. Most anti-regime Greeks and many other Europeans feel, probably naively, that a strong U.S. condemnation of the colonels would force them to either step down or liberalize their harshly autocratic rule...
...government in Greece, but it is afraid to push the Greek rulers too hard for fear that they might decide to seek arms or aid elsewhere. When Ambassador Tasca takes up his duties in Athens, he will try diplomatically to nudge Papadopoulos and his military colleagues toward more democratic rule...
...prime rate on business loans only because they fear "the wrath of Congress." The prime rate is an increasingly unreliable guide to borrowing costs anyway. Growing numbers of borrowers pay as much as 10.6% interest on loans officially made at the prime rate, because banks are strictly enforcing a rule that the borrower must leave 20% of the face amount of his loan on deposit as a "compensating balance...