Word: compelling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cartel's operations are being probed in other courtrooms too. In Richmond, Va., federal court, 15 of the nation's largest electric utilities are suing Westinghouse Electric, the nation's largest supplier of uranium to private industry. They seek to compel Westinghouse to honor contracts to deliver 65 million Ibs. of uranium at an average price of $10 per Ib. Doing so could cost Westinghouse as much as $2.6 billion. To avoid that loss, Westinghouse is using the same argument as United Nuclear, that it was victimized by the cartel. Meanwhile, Westinghouse has filed its own suit...
...narrator has no name but she is mysteriously connected with the characters, Suspicions of what the connection is compel you through the book. You need to know why this woman is spending her time strolling in solitude along a Maine beach, why she is spending her summer remembering, why it all began 40 years ago, with Mira...
...right to own property, but did not intend the 14th Amendment to grant them equal access to voting booths, schools, juries or jobs. Thus in Berger's accounting, when Congress enacted the provision including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce Southern representation when the former slavocracy denied blacks the opportunity to vote, ensuring continued Re publican control of the Government...
...shambles; a filibuster by Republicans and Southern Democrats last week killed his bill for public financing of Senate elections. But a remarkable amount of his energy program is moving through Congress (see ENERGY). Carter also signed into law the first national strip-mining bill, which will compel operators to restore the landscape to approximately its original condition...
...offering a daily, no-frills, nonreservation shuttle service at a round-trip price of just $236 (v. $631 for a 14-21 day summer excursion fare). IATA members vehemently opposed him, warning that his "Skytrain" service would hurt the scheduled carriers on the New York-London run and compel them to cut their losses by curtailing flights on less profitable routes elsewhere. Well, surprise. Now that Laker has won permission from the Carter Administration to offer his walk-on shuttle service beginning in late September, his IATA competitors are not only preparing to meet him head-on but suggesting that...