Word: strike
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...committee will later devise the exact election system. Christopher A. Sims '63, assistant professor of Economics, moved to strike the Fainsod Committee's recommendations that the council membership be divided equally among the Faculty's three areas-Humanities, Social Sciences, and Natural Sciences-and that council members serve for three years. The Faculty adjourned before acting on Sims' motion...
...Poseidon missiles, MIRV would give the U. S. capacity to launch some 8000 nuclear warheads instead of the present 1700. Without an increase in quantity, the same number of missiles could individually pack up to nine additional warheads aimed at different targets. Faced with this multiplication of U. S. strike capacity, the Soviets began work on the SS-9 missile-which, in turn, served as the justification for our ABM program...
...this point, then, a weapons "freeze" is unlikely. A freeze would guarantee U. S. superiority. The Soviets would probably turn down an agreement which gives the U. S. a first strike capacity and the right to deploy Poseidon and Minuteman III missiles, both MIRVed. A limitation on ABMs would be easier to agree on and easier to enforce than an agreement on MIRVs. The Nixon Administration has offered to give up the ABMs if the Russians stopped work on the SS-9. It has declined to say that it would do the same if the Russians gave up their ABMs...
...find a piece of the action they can call their own, the people of Noon are totally pathetic. This essential pathos of the work keeps it from being erotic. Still, McNally's documentation of the sexual mores involved- complete with whips and chains, undressing, and noneuphemistic language- will nonetheless strike some people as obscene. That's their problem...
...prosecutor had a point. Ohio law says that a man may be convicted of manslaughter if he commits an illegal act that could be "reasonably anticipated by an ordinarily prudent person" as likely to cause another's death. Even if Nosis did not strike Ripple, the prosecution argued at the trial, his threats and gestures amounted to an assault. Moreover, since Nosis knew about Ripple's heart condition, he could have reasonably anticipated that the threats were likely to result in death. Nosis was found guilty, and the Ohio Supreme Court has just upheld that verdict by refusing...