Word: ruling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...example, because the representatives of France and the Holy Roman Empire never could agree about who should walk into the conference room first; they finally agreed to enter together, and so ended what was known as the War of the Grand Al liance. In 1801, Thomas Jefferson adopted the rule of "pellmell" for diplomatic meetings-whoever arrived first, entered first. That solution has long since been dropped by protocol-conscious officials. Numerous efforts have been made to regulate matters of precedence. The Congress of Vienna in 1815 established four classes of diplomatic representatives (ambassadors and Papal legates; ministers plenipotentiary; ministers...
...that the Sixth Amendment guarantees his client a speedy trial "in the vicinage" of the alleged crime The phrase is nowhere in the amendment But, citing a letter from James Madson Kunstler contended that the framers had meant the amendment to cover this right. The judge has yet to rule on the argument...
...meeting. The independence of the University, as I understand it, means that, within the limits of moral tolerance, the University is not committed to any one political position, just as the outside society does not impose on it any one doctrinal orthodoxy--though in the past this was the rule. The Putnam motions would, in my opinion, if they prevailed, commit the Faculty to a specific general political position which comes very close to a doctrinal orthodoxy. The rationale for such a position is not generated inside the academic world from academic considerations, but would be imposed upon it from...
...Course Assistant. It was Bunny Largess, Visiting Professor of Half-Truths, who formulated the now-famous rule on "choosing a course assistant." In Bunny's own words, "Make sure he is cruder, more reactionary, and basically less pleasant than even you are. Then give him a free hand." It is also important that the assistant be totally inept as a lecturer (ideally he should drool as well as lisp), and that he cast a favorable light on your physical appearance. [In the event that your academic credentials are likewise open to question, be careful to pick an assistant with ones...
...arrest of left-leaning Opposition Leader Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. But the un rest continued, and last week, in one of Pakistan's most turbulent periods since independence in 1947, thousands of angry citizens, mostly students, surged through the streets virtually every day in protest against Ayub's rule...