Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...often, public unions argue their case before officials who lack the authority-or the will-to negotiate solutions. Public employees are also aware that, while their opponent across the negotiation table supposedly represents the public weal, his bargaining stance is frequently determined by political expedience-and the sheer desire for political survival...
British Prime Minister Harold Wilson warned, during a CBS television interview, that nuclear escalation in Viet Nam would be "sheer lunacy." Red China's Premier Chou En-lai promised North Viet Nam nuclear weapons if the U.S. uses them. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee sent a formal query to Secretary of State Dean Rusk asking if there was any truth to the nuke talk...
...hand, making the Germans more determined than ever to press him. "I will not travel to Paris in sackcloth and ashes," said Brandt, "and this applies all the more to the Chancellor. It is high time that we put an end to what many in this country regard as sheer mischief...
What resulted was sheer anarchy. For the first general session of the four-day conference at the Sheraton-Park Hotel, the editors found 500 chairs arranged in a circle, with 17 microphones placed at intervals. The idea was that anyone could speak whenever he felt like it. Those who felt most like it were hippie citizens of "Drop City," Colo., decked out in dungarees, headbands and feathers. "If I heard someone say once he was 'doing his thing,' I heard it a hundred times," reports Charles DeCarlo, director of automation research for IBM. Along with Buckminster Fuller...
...Keeton-O'Connell Plan offers no true solution. It is a sheer palliative intended to satisfy everyone. It offers to the advocate of liability without fault direct insurance payments for economic loss up to $10,000, regardless of negligence. However, it retains traditional litigation based on fault for economic loss in excess of $10,000 and for pain and suffering claims above $5,000. Obviously, it will encourage claimants to increase their demands to an amount which will bring them into court-and there they will still be faced with the present outmoded concepts and procedures-and interminable delay...