Word: objecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...miniskirts now seem to be straining for fresh sensations. London's latest sartorial smash is a camel's hair maxicoat for dogs. But when the new fashion was promoted in stores and newspapers last week, all of Britain seemed to bark back. Animal psychologists protested that dogs "object to being dressed up." The man at Harrods pet department rejected the coats as downright "impractical." The final word came from the venerable Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which sometimes seems to rival Parliament and Crown as a defender of the realm. "This is the kind...
World Control Center. One articulate critic of the Task Force plan is Walter J. Levy, dean of oil consultants, who argues that Middle Eastern governments might well object to a tariff that discriminates against them. The tariff itself would involve mind-boggling complexity to cover varying costs of production and shipping. It would also require frequent adjustments to take account of the Defense Department's calculation of the reliability of supplies from each producing country...
...entire validity of the bill assumes that the Boston Patriots professional football team, a private corporation with stockholders, can be legally classified as an object in the public interest." Contrary to what Mr. Daley and my friend at the Globe, Bud Collins, believe, that assumption is a little naive...
...weapon of eminent domain has traditionally been used to procure, and often remove, an object that was hindering public progress, such as a private home that lay in the way of a proposed turnpike route or a site for a public building...
What philosophy could do, what Merleau-Ponty devoted his work to doing, was to "arouse in us a love for our times ... [and] like the most fragile object of perception- a soap bubble or a wave- or like the simplest dialogue, embrace... indivisibly all the order and the disorder of the world...