Word: assessment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said Justice Harold H. Burton, writing the Supreme Court majority opinion (joined by Felix Frankfurter, Tom Clark, William Brennan, Charles Evans Whittaker and John Marshall Harlan). Even assuming that the Taft-Hartley Act permits the NLRB to assess unions for back pay in certain cases, that, said Burton, would not prevent a plaintiff from seeking full damages in state courts. To hold otherwise, he wrote, would "grant to unions a substantial immunity" from the consequences of illegal mass picketing or coercion...
...President, would you care to assess the Republican chances in the '58 campaign...
Although they were in a psychiatric ward, there was nothing wrong with the students except that they had gone without sleep for as long as 72 hours. They were volunteer subjects in a study (one of several under way in various medical centers) to assess the effects of sleep loss on a man's mind and body...
Only seven days before, Sir Hugh Fo:)t had arrived to take over as Britain's new governor. Cyprus quickly learned that it had a new kind of governor. Unarmed and unguarded, Foot walked through the streets of Nicosia to assess the damage, mingled with shopkeepers. "A governor with guts," admitted Greek and Turk alike, and cheered him. Next day Foot paid a surprise visit to twelve Greek women terrorists held in Nicosia's central prison, ordered two of them released immediately on grounds of health...
Other financial arrangements include the following points. Sixty percent of all profit would go to the committee, and the rest would be used at the discretion of the organization concerned. In case of additional financial need, the committee would have the power to assess each organization in proportion to its profit over the past year...