Word: sanctioning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week's decision crowns 13 years of frustrating delays since the merger plan was born in 1955. The roads sought the sanction of the Interstate Commerce Commission to unite in 1961. Five years later, the commission rejected their petition on the ground that the northern combine, involving some of the profit-starved railroad industry's most prosperous carriers, would hurt competition. In particular, the commission expressed the fear that the merged companies would draw traffic away from the Chicago & North Western and the Milwaukee Road. Late last year, the commission reversed itself after the northern lines promised...
...rape or incest. Four of these five states?Colorado, North Carolina, Georgia and Maryland?also authorize abortion if the child is likely to be born defective, as is commonly the case if the mother has had German measles (rubella) within the first three months of pregnancy. California did not sanction this ground because Governor Ronald Reagan threatened to veto any bill that included...
Such a statement is repugnant in its moral absolutism: It is anti-democratic in principle and seems to sanction any action to prevent a Harvard student from participating in ROTC...
...hard to tell exactly where power lies within the Administration and Faculty departments because of their interchanging roles as proposer and approver. Administrators' dependency upon the goodwill of the Faculty, and the Faculty's ultimate sanction through threat of resignation, tend to make the system operate without consistently devisive controversy. (The Corporation, which delegates away its policy-making role, also operates on a consensus basis--some Fellows cannot recall a single vote within the body.) This system is sensitive and vulnerable to pressure; as the Dow solution indicated, majorities do not necessarily matter so much when a minority is strongly...
...reasons that the university became the target are not too hard to see. There was a rational progression to it all. The Dow sit-ins of the fall protested first the corporation's manufacture of napalm, and then the university's sanction of it by allowing Dow to use university facilities to recruit future napalm-makers...