Word: proceedings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mary could be a claim that Vili raped her, since she was vulnerable and didn't have the will to resist his come-ons. So far, however, Mary has avoided putting any legal burdens on her young lover. Meanwhile, her friends and lawyers are bickering about how to proceed. The infighting has worsened in the past few weeks. Howards has tried, unsuccessfully, to get them all to shut up, and she is the only one who isn't talking...
Although everyone's concerns are important,Eleganza directors "have the right to proceed asplanned," Bell said. "Last year sparked the samekind of discussion...
...terra nullius," that is to say, uninhabited. Thus the Aborigines were not deemed to have any claims to native land title, nor was there felt to be any need, as in North America and New Zealand, to negotiate treaties with the native inhabitants. Legally, Aborigines were invisible; dispossession could proceed without even the formalities of legal process...
...trainload of napalm is riding the rails in limbo somewhere in the Texas-Oklahoma area today, after an Indiana company, under fierce bi-partisan bipartisan political pressure, withdrew its offer to recycle 23 million gallons of the incendiary substance. The Navy vowed to proceed with its plan to recycle the napalm stored at a California base, but there was no word on the immediate fate of the Indiana-bound shipment. Sure, this is like protesting a gasoline tanker, but pressure arising from the Vietnam-era associations forced Pollution Control Industries to back out of the deal...
...Never Around" approach to statesmanship was the Panama Canal, which he ordered built in 1903, after what he called "three centuries of conversation." If a convenient revolution had to be fomented in Colombia (in order to facilitate the independence of Panama province and allow construction to proceed p.d.q.), well, that was Bogota's bad luck for being obstructionist and good fortune for the rest of world commerce. Being a historian, T.R. never tired of pointing out that his Panamanian revolution had been merely the 53rd anti-Colombian insurrection in as many years, but he was less successful in arguing that...