Word: facto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case is based on an Indiana criminal code provision adopted in 1977 permitting corporations to be charged with criminal acts; 22 other states allow this. Ford contended that it should not be tried ex post facto on a 1977 law for a car built in 1973 involving an accident in 1978. But the judge bought the prosecutor's argument that the charge was not based on the Pinto design fault, but rather on the fact that Ford had permitted the car "to remain on Indiana highways, knowing Full well its defects." Manufacturers, said the prosecutor, should be "on notice...
...purpose? One answer from Sinologists was that this calculated political performance was inspired by Teng to show both the Chinese and the Western world that the outpourings of grief over Chou's death were revolutionary acts. After some of the wall posters called for an ex post facto justification of the T'ien An Men rally, Teng announced that the 1976 demonstration had indeed been sanctified by the Central Committee. Teng was quoted as saying: "It may be called a unanimous decision, expressing the desires of the whole party, the whole army and all the Chinese people...
...Government, rejected a Kennedy school student resolution signed by more than half of the school's students calling for a renaming of the Engelhard Public Affairs Library. Allison's response--another in a long line of weak-kneed administration statements regarding student demands that Harvard end its de facto support of the South African government--is disappointing, though not surprising...
There are undoubtedly people who believe that improving the quality of Loeb theater is worth the de facto abandonment of the amateur principle. These people will argue that students who are not "serious" about theater, students who are not pre-professional, can always act, direct and do tech work on House shows. It is ironic that the majority of Harvard students should have to return to the situation that existed before the Loeb was built, doing shows in terribly limiting and uninspiring facilities. The Loeb was planned because there was an obvious need for a well-equipped undergraduate acting facility...
...Arab states were as divided as ever. The Palestine Liberation Organization's de facto foreign minister, Farouk Kaddoumi, for instance, taunted the Saudis for their continued financial backing of Egypt. Unless the Arabs took joint action, he declared, "the Israelis will not stop until they have reached Mecca and seized your oil wealth." To which the Saudi Foreign Minister, Prince Saud al Faisal, replied tartly: "Mecca has a God to protect it. As for the oil, it has men defending it." By week's end the group had voted to raise $9 billion to strengthen Arab defenses against...