Word: employment
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Brown explained during the summer that the group chose the word "moratorium" to preclude use of the word "strike," which bears unwanted connotations of violence and would be wrongly interpreted as an action against the institutions struck rather than against the war. "It is important to employ actions and rhetoric that will maintain the broadest possible opposition to the war," a group statement reads...
...movement for social change, violence is justified only as a last resort. Even in extreme circumstances, violent tactics are tolerable only when they aim at welldefined political ends and employ the minimum force needed to attain those objectives. By either of these criteria, yesterday's invasion of the Center for International Affairs must be judged a savage and infantile exercise in terrorism...
...Prepared. The trustee committee traced much of the blame for the campus troubles to lax discipline for several years before the crisis occurred. Said the trustees: "Cornell has not only consistently failed to employ disciplinary procedures available to it, but by refusing to employ such procedures has threatened materially the usefulness of these procedures for the future." The committee also blamed poor communication within the university, especially about the program to admit underqualified blacks, for fostering "misunder standing and resentment" that eventually produced last spring's near-calamitous insurrection...
...vantages of a cheaper franc are frittered away in rising prices. Last week, as Frenchmen returned to work after their August holiday, the Pompidou government greeted them with news of austerity to come. Finance Minister Valery Giscard d'Estaing announced an at tack on inflation that will employ nearly every fiscal and monetary weapon available to modern governments...
...likely to employ the sadistic methods that Cosa Nostra still finds useful. Despite the more businesslike image of the younger gang leaders, many mobsters are still animals in fedoras. If Sam Giancana moves, as he has, with Frank Sinatra on one level, his henchmen move on another. One of the most chilling conversations that the FBI has overheard involved two of Giancana's hoods telling a third, "Jackie," about the murder of one of their colleagues, a 350-pounder by the name of William Jackson...