Word: suited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...further tightening of credit by raising the "prime rate"-the interest charged on loans to the bank's biggest and most reliable customers-from 5% to 5½%, highest level since the formula was introduced in the 1930s. Virtually every major bank in the U.S. followed suit, with Washington's tacit approval, further bruising the battered stock market (see U.S. BUSINESS...
...this was Greek to Mrs. Surowitz, but she readily agreed to act as plaintiff in a shareholder's suit alleging fraud. Since Rule 23 (b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that "the complaint shall be verified by oath," she swore to her belief in the truth of its contents before a notary public. Skeptical, Hilton's lawyers forced Mrs. Surowitz to take the stand in a Chicago federal district court to prove her understanding of all the details in her 60-page complaint. Naturally, she flunked the quiz. Calling it "a sham," the judge dismissed...
Pediosky is challenging the constitutionality of the oath in a suit now pending before the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. If the oath is held unconstitutional, Pusey said, there will be no problem. If not, he said, Bowles will have to sign or be fired...
...Bowles's dismissal for refusing to sign the Massachusetts Teachers' Loyalty Oath was made effective March 31, instead of the end of February, so that he would have time to sue for reinstatement. Bowles, an instructor in Economics, said yesterday that his lawyer, Gerald Berlin, had not yet filed suit but would do so in the next few days...
...nineteenth century, a type of situation that we generally succeeded in avoiding in that era. I do not contend that we today are simply nineteenth century imperialists come back to life, any more than Chairman Mao is actually a resurrected Son of Heaven in a blue boiler suit. But I don't believe we can escape our historical heritage entirely, any more than he can. We have been part and parcel of the long-term Western approach to East Asia and ought to see ourselves in that perspective, just as any view of our China policy has to include...