Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Section 7 of the 1914 Clayton Act, to which Government lawyers had devoted only six pages of their 100-page brief and only perfunctory oral argument. Section 7 bars a corporation from acquiring stock in another, "where the effect of such acquisition may be [to restrain commerce] or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce." Ruled the Supreme Court (in the majority opinion written by Justice Brennan): the facts showed a "reasonable probability" that Du Pont's stock interest in G.M. "is likely to result in the condemned restraints...
...Fifth Amendment. Beck Junior and his kissing cousin, Joe McEvoy, who was next up, had overworked a new wrinkle in abuse of the Fifth. When Beck would refuse to answer questions on such matters as his occupation or salary, McClellan would ask if he "honestly believed" his answer would tend to incriminate him. Beck would not reply with yes or "it might," as most have done, but used the Fifth again...
...necessary, to the highest court in the land. He did not believe, McClellan said, that a witness "is entitled to invoke the Fifth Amendment unless he can also state under oath, without perjuring himself, that he honestly believes that if he answered the question truthfully the truthful answer might tend to incriminate him." South Dakota's Karl Mundt, for the Republicans, was quick to join McClellan. Beck Junior may well provide the ample material from which the courts will cut a decision that defines the protections but limits the abuses of the now overworked Fifth Amendment...
Jacob begins his analysis by attempting to determine the main contemporary patterns of value among American students. Drawing chiefly from the evidence of five previous studies, he notes that college students today tend to think alike, feel alike, and believe alike. He notes that most of them are gloriously contented, self-centered, and tolerant of diversity, that they value the traditional moral virtues, that they feel a need for religion, but that religion does not carry over to guide their important secular decisions, that they are dutifully responsive towards government, and that they set great stock by college in general...
Harvard's emphasis on grades can show worst in final examinations. Finals can and should be educational tools in themselves, but now they tend to deemphasize memory, and a certain amount of vaguely knowledgeable generalization. Questions which amount only to identifications, either of terms or places, or which permit an A answer based only on general information typify this pointless approach...