Word: compelling
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...quality act of 1967 would accelerate research and expand matching grants to states; federal spending would increase from $35.5 million this year to $84 million in the fiscal year beginning July 1. But Johnson sees federal regulation as the most effective immediate antidote for pollution. His bill would compel fuel producers to register all additives such as tetraethyllead- used to boost gasoline octane count- with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare so that their potentially noxious effects could be studied. HEW would be given authority to designate industries that contribute heavily to pollution, and in each case would determine...
Eighty-eight per cent of the Cliffies said that the Selective Service should not compel universities to compute rank-in-class for them. At Harvard, that was the opinion of 72 per cent...
Freezing enthusiasts argue that their proposals for reanimating the dead conform to Christian teachings, which stress the sacredness of life; they even contend that refusal to be frozen might be construed as suicide. They concede that their program might compel some drastic rethinking in theology, ethics and law. For instance, in law, says Ettinger, "a new kind of manslaughter will appear, namely, the failure to freeze" -that is, somebody might pull the plug on the capsule. Similarly, says Ettinger, theologians might have to revise their concepts of the nature of the soul. There is no agreement, for instance, even...
...Commonwealth might be expected to deal harshly with the rebel regime of Ian Smith in Rhodesia, where 220,000 whites now rule 4,000,000 black Africans. But British Prime Minister Har old Wilson has ruled out the use of force against Rhodesia, insisting that economic sanctions will compel Smith to back down. So this week, as the 16th Commonwealth conference begins in London, Wilson faces a crisis over Rhodesia that threatens to tear apart the British-reared family of nations...
...N.S.A. demanded an end to the bombing of North and South Viet Nam, and the setting up of a coalition government in the south to include the Viet Cong. The congress proposed abolishing the peacetime draft and asserted that "no government should be allowed the power to compel its citizens to kill." Even wartime drafts, the resolution contended, should give conscriptees a choice of military service or work in hospitals, conservation, the Peace Corps or "a learning corps," and should exempt "philosophical and political as well as religious" objectors. The convention opposed as "undemocratic" the draft...