Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...opposition Labor Party charged incumbent Conservatives with a sellout, voiced fears that the move would lead to U.S. domination of a major British industry. Laborites hooted at the Conservatives' assurances that Chrysler would not be allowed to increase its Rootes holdings substantially without government sanction. Last week, in a rather full circle, the Labor government found itself bestowing its blessing on a Chrysler takeover. Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn announced approval of additional purchases of Rootes shares that will give Chrysler more than a two-thirds interest in Britain's sputtering, fourth-largest automaker...
...anybody that there were two ways of looking at war. War was war -bloody, awful, sometimes glorious-and the normal way in which a nation established itself in the days when Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria and Persia were harrying each other for territory and tribute. Aggression invariably had the sanction of a deity. The Israelites' takeover of the Canaanites was commanded by Jehovah himself. And wars were usually as total as soldiers with limited technology could make them...
Powell could, however, by a simple majority vote, be seated only provisionally pending an investigation of his conduct. He seems undisturbed by even that prospect. Under such a sanction, he would continue drawing his $30,000-a-year salary and could, if he managed to escape jail, continue to live in Adam's Eden pretty much as he does...
...fact is that Negroes have progressed farther and faster than any minority in the history of the U.S., or almost any other nation. Considering that the drive for full equality did not really begin until after World War II and did not achieve the sanction of law until the Supreme Court struck down the old "separate but equal" doctrine in 1954, the gains have been nothing less than remarkable. Though whites still earn far more than Negroes ($7,170 per family compared with $3,971), Negro income has risen 24% since 1960 v. only 14% for whites. Today, just over...
...committee may suggest a direct merger of Arch Sci and Visual Studies under the name of Environmental Studies. To accomplish the merger, the committee would need the sanction of first the CEP and then the full Faculty...