Word: stallings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sons of rich, prominent Filipinos, impulsive lawbreaking is nothing to worry about. Even in cases of assault or murder, the police are apt to stall, witnesses to forget, and prosecutors to drop charges. Thus, Manila barely blinked recently when two well-dressed bucks shot and killed a man outside a brothel, and fled in their car. Then, surprise. Under Secretary of Justice Claudio Teehankee almost immediately produced one of the suspects - his own son, Roberto, 24. "I've been urging prosecutors to let the chips fall where they may," explained the intense, crusading Teehankee. "I simply had to practice...
Political gyrations turned the last two sessions of the conference into what one professor described as "intellectual anarchy." In their effort to stall the voluntary army bandwagon, Sol Tax, chairman of the conference's planning committee and professor of Anthropology at the University of Chicago, and several colleagues at that university proposed that no resolutions be passed on anything...
...County District Attorney's office would ignore the request, so that part of the second demand is impracticable and irrelevant. But for the Berkeley administration to compound the situation with discipline of its own would be to treat the strikers as criminals. No step would be more sure to stall a solution to the present crisis...
...bolts matters as the exact level of taxation to be charged on enterprise profits, the exact proportion of bonuses, the exact changes in various wholesale prices arising from the end of subsidy. They may not succeed: the "oxen" with their Stalinist axes have cut down reform before and may stall it again before the New Year rolls around...
...British wangled in the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713. Spain's cause won moral support two years ago from the United Nations' committee on colonialism, which bade the British negotiate. Bowing, the British finally agreed to hear out the Spanish, then found a way to further stall the proceedings. The method Britain chose was to propose that the matter be referred to the International Court of Justice at The Hague for settlement...