Word: standing
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Peculiarity & Commonality. Upon this understanding of the principle of law stand the A.B.A.'s Rhyne and many advocates of peace through a world rule of law. "Every human community that is regulated by laws and customs," said the second-century-B.C. Roman jurist Gaius, "observes a system of law which in part is peculiar to itself and in part is common to mankind." The peculiarities lie in the forms of laws and their enforcement. But the commonality-on which any system of world law must be built-rests in basic values, in the hunger of mankind for justice...
...recommend a bill providing a three-year extension of the reciprocal trade program, a compromise between President Eisenhower's five-year request and the one-year-and-no-more demands of the congressional tariff bloc. But regardless of heavy protectionist opposition, trade-minded committee Democrats and Republicans will stand pat behind the President's power to overrule Tariff Commission recommendations in the interests of U.S. trade as a whole. ¶Packing for a South American tour, Vice President Nixon nevertheless took time out to provide chow, chat and charm for some of his most consistent critics...
...whole chaotic mess was right back where the Hague conference left it 28 years ago: each nation could declare its own limit, and enforce it if it could. Said Arthur Dean for the U.S.: "We stand on the three-mile limit; we will continue to do so, and we will not recognize any unilateral extension beyond that limit...
...Angeles Dodgers stumbled through their first home stand last week, Smith's amiable hyperbole was borne out by the remorseless arithmetic of the score card. The looming left-field screen that was supposed to turn Memorial Coliseum into a big-league ballpark (TIME, April 28) had become the biggest boon to batters since the rabbit ball. At the end of eight home games, 26 homers had got lost on the far side of the screen only 250 ft. away...
...California Medical Society. Basis of their study: 8,692 patients admitted to eight Seventh-day Adventist hospitals in southern California in 1952-56. Of these, 564 were Seventh-day Adventists who did not smoke or drink because their religion forbids, while 8,128 were of persuasions that take no stand on tobacco or alcohol, so many, but not all, both smoked and drank. All patients had either cancer or coronary artery disease, or had suffered heart attacks...