Word: facto
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...failure of government. Accordingly, he would strengthen congressional control over federal programs by putting a five-to ten-year limit on all organic acts of legislation. Congress would then be free to overhaul or eliminate programs that do not turn out as they were intended. He would end de facto apartheid in congested areas by breaking down the artificial distinction between cities and suburbs. A study of Chicago convinced him that Negroes could be redistributed by bus throughout city and suburban schools until they constituted about 15% of the student body in each. This, Lowi feels, would achieve integration...
...state laws covering public employees. But it did consent to a grievance procedure in which a union member can assist workers, and it approved an employee credit union that would allow a form of dues checkoff. As far as the union is concerned, these concessions amount to de facto recognition...
...early last week, a settlement granting most of the union's demands was imminent. Local 1199B of the New York-based Drug and Hospital Employees Union would get de facto recognition. There would be pay increases. The dozen employees would be reinstated. Then Senator Strom Thurmond announced in Washington that HEW Secretary Robert Finch had promised not to cut off federal assistance without a personal investigation. This assurance, passed on to the hospitals, caused the settlement to collapse. Said McCord in a one-sentence letter to the union: "Please be advised, that the offer to employ the twelve discharged...
...Facto Recognition. Ojukwu treated the men correctly however. Three lawyers defended them at their trial, they received food forwarded by the Vatican and were visited by the Rt. Rev. Godfrey Okoye, Roman Catholic bishop of Port Harcourt. Ojukwu, however, refused to discuss their plight with ENI but insisted that the Italian government -which does not recognize Biafra -speak in their behalf. He got his way when Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mario Pedini flew into Owerri to negotiate, thus giving Biafra at least temporary de facto recognition that irritated opposing Nigeria...
...whose legitimacy would be widely acknowledged, with a turn to more militant tactics only when they had been unable to get a hearing for such demands. The other condition would be a widening by the university authorities of their conception of acceptable political behavior to include, on a de facto basis, limited interruptions of normal university routines. Such interruptions would have to be brief and stop well short of violence and the threat of violence, both of which would presumably remain subject to severe sanctions. It is obviously impossible to predict that such an accommodation would work, or even that...