Word: uniform
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With automobile production far outstripping road building, the states have almost uniformly recognized the obligation they have to protect their citizens from traffic hazards. Compulsory liability insurance is a partial answer, but in many cases it does not go far enough. In Massachusetts, the defects in the present program are obvious: no provision is made for a driver's accident record in computing his premiums, and rates are decided individually for each locality, instead of making uniform charges throughout the state...
...course reduction program. While students pleaded "Pass me, please!" on their blue books, the draft daily carried away its share of tutors. Pressure was on to get a degree and get it quick. As it became increasingly difficult to patch the system with temporary measures, and to hold uniform control, the Faculty voted in 1942 to give the power of course reduction to the individual departments by allowing credit for tutorial...
...union kitty, and we're going to put it where it will provide the best return to serve the cause of responsible trade unionism ..." The Fruehauf deal, Beck believes, com bines good investment sense with good unionism. He likes the way Roy Fruehauf has fought for uniform truck and trailer size and weight regulations. Besides, the union is getting 4% for its money instead of the 2¼% it got when the money was in Government bonds...
...into those cool blue threads. (Average turnout before the jive-talk campaign: four recruits a week.) In Manhattan. Jazzbo Collins was pleased but unsurprised. "Recruiting spots would lend themselves. 'The Army needs YOU!' just wouldn't go. Whereas if you said, 'Man, dig that crazy uniform. It's a gasser.' Well...
...expect all forty-eight states to revise their laws in accordance with a treaty and, independently of each other, come up with uniform revisions is wishful thinking. Indeed, a stumbling block of three quarters the size has kept Constitutional amendments to the minimum. Yet, it would be no less wishful thinking to expect any foreign power to negotiate anything with a country so tied and bound. At worst, necessary international dealings would be abolished; at best, routine matters would become equal in difficulty to negotiations with Russia over the atom bomb. This is not to speak of more important treaties...