Word: willfull
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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The answer came in a Washington courtroom last week as Stans, 66, pleaded guilty to five misdemeanors. Stans insisted that his criminal violations of the campaign-funding laws were "not willful." Because the special prosecutor had agreed to lodge no other Watergate charges against him, Stans argued that this "established...
Willful Men. The compromise was supported by some previous opponents of any dilution of the filibuster, notably Democrat Russell Long. Such conservative Republicans as Roman Hruska and Robert Dole also turned around. They apparently felt that if they refused to compromise, the liberals might muster enough votes to gain a...
The new rule will make it easier for the Senate to vote on such issues as national health insurance and extension of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, as well as resolve impasses over tax and energy proposals. Although the dispute could arise again in 1977, the precedent toward easier...
But her increasing propensity to jail and dismiss defense attorneys for minor or nonexistent infractions led finally to an effort to spike Cannon. Last week a California judicial commission formally asked the state supreme court to remove the Stanford Law School graduate for willful misconduct and actions "prejudicial to the...
We have considered the opposing argument that behavior which violates these social and ethical considerations should be made subject to formal sanctions, and the argument that such behavior entitles others to prevent speech they might regard as offensive. Our conviction that the central purpose of the university is to foster...