Word: sanctions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nonetheless, Air West's stockholders two weeks ago voted 52% in favor of Hughes. Then, in a surprising move, Air West's directors voted 13 to 11 not to sanction the sale. With that, some big pro-Hughes shareholders threatened court action. Hughes' agent, Francis Fox, who communicates with his secretive boss via closed-circuit TV, got in touch with the holdout directors. Perhaps because of the threatened lawsuits, six of them switched to Hughes...
...poverty, to HEW. The poverty program's effort to furnish legal aid to the poor may be assigned to the Justice Department. Nixon and Moynihan would also like to scrap the Job Corps, which they consider inefficient. But he would need congressional approval for such steps-sanction that would not be easily obtained...
Shift of Emphasis. An apt example is the law-and-order field. There, the President-elect may work with the Omnibus Crime Control Act, passed by the 90th Congress, to expand federal aid to local law enforcement authorities. Under the Act, Nixon's Attorney General may sanction the use of wiretapping in certain cases-authority that the Johnson Administration declined to use. Nixon may also double the size of the Justice Department's organized crime section, raise it to the status of a separate division within the agency and elevate its chief to the rank of Assistant Attorney...
...Knapp would not say whether the study had been run at Boston University instead of Harvard because of difficulties in gaining the Administration's sanction. "Suffice it to say," Dr. Knapp said, "that there were perfect working facilities...
...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 without by a particular politically committed group. To be sure, this group claims moral sanction for its position, but so do other, differing groups claim moral sanction for their own positions...