Word: secret
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Death of Justina," a businessman must ask the mayor of his community for a secret exception to zoning laws because his cousin Justina is dying in a ward where death is illegal...
...rights law lost in the Massachusetts assembly this year by only about twelve votes in the House, Frank said, adding that if there could have been a secret ballot vote, the law would have passed...
...signing the contract. So this time around, Yale is playing the game of collective bargaining more carefully. Far from announcing any willingness to accept arbitration again, university officials say instead that it would have been irresponsible of them to have played games with the negotiations, keeping their final offer secret until arbitration might begin...
This defense is problematic at best, since it relies on value judgements, not facts. A great many reasonable Americans strongly objected to Nixon's statecraft. Many were horrified by the secret invasion of Cambodia, the Christmas bombing of North Vietnam, or the determined attempts to undermine couet-ordered busing programs. For these people, Nixon's record as president could only be considered one more mark against him in his battle for survival...
...demands for some degree of Indian ownership. One company under pressure: Coca-Cola, which has all but stopped making Coke in India. The company had been ready to reach an agreement on mixed ownership, but rejected India's demand for the formula for Coke's syrup, a secret that is supposedly locked in a Georgia bank vault and known to only ten people in the world...