Word: signer
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...have been laggardly, businessmen have not. And perhaps the Common Market's most notable achievement is a new state of mind in Europe's business community. "The most important success of the Common Market," says Baron Jean-Charles Snoy et d'Oppuers, Belgian banker and a signer of the Rome treaty, "has been in changing the attitudes of Europe's businessmen. An immense amount of capital investment has been made on the assumption of the larger market. This is something indestructible, and this huge stake in the success of the Common Market is the guarantee...
...more effective, says a spokesman, "to send the head of one member plant into the office of a Senator than to send him a petition full of names of all the heads of our member plants." Of campus-circulated petitions, Harvard Historian Oscar Handlin, a confirmed non-signer, says: "I think they have no effect whatsoever except to let people blow off steam. In the past, the academic community was more responsible and therefore more effective...
...national dignity and the national interest" of the new republic and weakened its hand in the continuing negotiations with Whitehall. Thus, when an Anglo-American agreement finally emerged in 1794, the U.S. secured almost none of the concessions it had sought, including trade reciprocity in the Caribbean. Its signer, Chief Justice John Jay, was hanged in effigy, and the agreement is still known as "Jay's treaty." But Boyd believes that its name, and the effigy, should have been Hamilton...
...Holmes, an active opposition attempted to discourage potential fasters. Thirty five girls initiated a counter-petition, which asserted that "We definitely support SNCC but cannot endorse the method and the precedent that would be set by RGA." One signer evidently considered even the counter-petition too extreme and substituted "probably" for "definitely...
...mother is undisputed Etiqueen Amy Vanderbilt, 55. The bride's parents followed her every instruction. The listing of the Clarks separately was a discreet indication they are divorced, and since Amy is "a newsworthy person," there was all sorts of genealogy tracing her son back to a signer of the Declaration of Independence. The Wolffs even accepted the Vanderbilt tip to release the news on Monday, "a slow news day." That was all in Chapter...