Word: quasi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Once a backwater of the Federal Government, the Post Office Department was reorganized in 1970 as a semiprivate, quasi-military company called the U.S. Postal Service. With 825,000 employees, it has more troops than the U.S. Army. But pressure is growing from the public as the price of stamps goes up while service goes down, and hotshot new businesses like Federal Express demonstrate that a letter can absolutely, positively get there overnight. The Postal Service has had to automate to move more than 160 billion pieces of mail a year with ever greater efficiency. New machines have reduced handling...
...legal question, the Massachussets Commission Against Discrimination, a quasi-judicial body, will decide whether the clubs should be required to admit women. As a philosophical question, final clubs will always be debated and never resolved. But as a practical question, the solution for students is obvious: Males and females should boycott the clubs...
...done what he should have done," Brown said. "The ethics committee ought to go forward. Pressure is building to resign. But we ought to let the quasi-judicial process go forward...
Asked if Frank had become an embarrassment to the Democratic Party, Brown said: "No, don't think so. There have been issues like this for years in politics. But I think we should let the quasi-judicial process take over, and then we can make some recommendations...
...party suggests that such disputes be settled by the Constitutional Control Commission, a quasi Supreme Court that was created last year...