Word: summons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...allies want to preserve occupation laws which prohibit a revival of cartels; the Germans consider this an unacceptable limitation on their sovereignty. Compromise: occupation laws will prevail until the West Germans pass their own decartelization laws. If the Germans start fudging, the allies can summon a five-member international board whose decisions will be binding...
Wood's conferences with his department heads seldom last more than five minutes and Wood often ends them abruptly by standing up. From his memory he can summon facts & figures on Sears' operation 20 years ago, and he expects his subordinates to do the same. His opinions are strong, but they can be changed if enough facts are marshaled against him. "To get along with the general," says one lieutenant, "you don't have to be supine. He doesn't like that. But it helps to be flexible." He is brisk but not brusque. Once...
...calls a party leader to form a government, but the person she designates must command a majority in the House of Commons. (George III was the last monarch to summon and dismiss ministries at will.) Elizabeth's power to grant or refuse a dissolution of Parliament is real enough, but she would use it independently only in extraordinary circumstances-e.g., if death or strife hopelessly entangled the wheels of party government...
...sergeant and his family for $50 a month. There was no bath, no toilet, no water. When a rat bit off the index finger of the sergeant's six-month-old baby, the landlady refused to let the sergeant's wife use her telephone to summon...
...bottom was a single recommendation: the President should summon General MacArthur from the Pacific to get his views on the matter; "all other political and military personages should be excluded from this conference...