Word: apportionment
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Melvoin watched as motorists pleaded, cajoled and, not infrequently, remained civil while Harrington tried to equitably apportion his meager supply of gasoline. Concluded Melvoin: "A gas-station owner is just another confused citizen, trying to get a handle on what's going on."
TRIBE'S MEMO outlines the various procedural questions a convention might pose and points out that the Constitution does not say where power to resolve them lies. They include whether a state can withdraw its request for a convention, what possible time limit there might be on a state's...
No amount of bombast could hide the concerned mood of the meeting. The recession in the industrialized world, caused in part by towering oil prices, has sharply reduced demand for OPEC crude. This has lowered revenues for oil producers, who have had to cut production. OPEC output, which averaged 33...
Utaiba openly criticized OPEC for failing to coordinate its members' production schedules-that is, refusing to apportion the cutbacks so that no member suffers more than others. Utaiba also revealed that Abu Dhabi has ordered Western oil companies operating there to increase production immediately -leaving those firms to find...
Says U.S. Delegate Leigh Ratiner, "We're really writing a constitution." The Caracas delegates cannot just draw lines on the map the way Pope Alexander VI did when he split world navigation rights between Spain and Portugal in 1493. Rather, they have a three-dimensional task: they must apportion...