Word: weaponed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turbulent 1930s, the thaler became an international political weapon...
...dominions in 1850, Pius IX was a cautious political conservative. Much of his suspicion of modern ideas is summed up in the notorious Syllabus of Errors of 1864-a belligerent denunciation of such philosophies as rationalism and liberalism that anti-Catholics still find useful as a weapon against the church...
...Zealand's commissioner would not have the broad investigative powers of Sweden's ombudsman, notably the right to scrutinize judicial and local government procedures. Furthermore, he will be required to hold preliminary hearings in private, although in Sweden, Finland and Denmark, the ombudsman's strongest weapon is the widespread, chastening publicity that results from open investigation. To critics who want more powers for the commissioner, the government replies that when the first grievance man is appointed-probably by year's end-his effectiveness will not depend so much on his legal prerogatives as on the wisdom...
...inappropriate, illegal, outmoded and ineffective." Corey prefers a polite new substitute called the "sanction"-in effect a boycott of "unethical or arbitrary" school districts. At the Little Lake city school district in a booming (aircraft) area outside Los Angeles, the 123,000-member C.T.A. is testing this new weapon...
...drive for high teaching standards. Equally significant is C.T.A. 's heavy influence (by size alone) on its parent, the 812,000-member National Education Association. The "professional" N.E.A., which shuns teacher strikes, is being pressed toward militancy by teachers' unions. N.E.A. needs a competitive economic weapon, and C.T.A. has provided it. If this method works in Little Lake, the sanction may spread to other N.E.A. groups across the country...