Word: standards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...American Bankers Association arrived in Manhattan for a convention last week, a New York Times poll found heavy opposition to a federal bailout. But the bankers' resistance softened after speeches on the city's crisis from, among others, Mayor Beame, Carey, Rohatyn and Brenton Harries, president of Standard & Poor's Corp., the investment-research firm. Harries warned that civil disorder might follow a default and added: "As unpalatable as the specter of federal intervention is, the social and economic consequences of default of the proportions we are facing clearly make it the lesser of two evils...
...services to live within their incomes. Following are reports on the 12 biggest U.S. cities, except for New York and Washington, D.C., the eleventh largest, which has been excluded because of its unique dependence on the Federal Government. The cities are ranked according to 1975 population as estimated by Standard Rate & Data Service...
...Establish a uniform standard deduction of $1,800 for single individuals and $2,500 for married couples not itemizing deductions. Currently this deduction varies as a percentage of income, with a maximum of $2,300 for single people and $2,600 for couples...
...trouble for most psychiatrists comes when they have to translate what they have learned into testimony that meets legal requirements. The M'Naghten rule, first announced in 1843 and still part of California's standard, asks whether the defendant knew "the nature and quality of his act" and was able to distinguish right from wrong. In 1954 the Durham rule, formulated by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, greatly broadened the psychiatric defense by declaring that a person is not criminally responsible "if his unlawful act was the product of mental disease or mental defect." In a refinement...
...group takes a position completely independent of the standard and over-worked cliches of both the right and the left," Kernberg said...