Word: withdrawnness
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...start at a longer answer would begin by pointing to the deeply ambiguous character of public charters of power in this county. Historically, the United States has ceded wide, Juasi-public powers to private corporations (rights of eminent domain to the railraods, rights of social engineering to foundations), and withdrawn these rights when "public policy" saw the necessity for doing so. Two examples of the imperative use of considerations of public policy are the abolition of monopoly rights of turnpikes in the early 19th century to make way for the railroads and a leading case in which a trust...
...Republican ballot, Richard Nixon was opposed by Ohio's conservative Congressman John Ashbrook, who got 1% of the vote. California's liberal Republican Congressman Paul McCloskey, who had already withdrawn from the race, also got 1%. The President scored...
Meanwhile the American Association of Theological Schools has sent a team to the Concordia campus to determine whether the seminary's accreditation should be withdrawn. The A.A.T.S. does not enforce academic freedom as such, but it insists that theological discipline be handled by a seminary's board and not by church officials. Regardless of whether Preus takes any further action, the Ehlen case is sure to be an issue when the denomination holds its convention in 1973, a meeting at which Preus will be bidding for a second four-year term as president...
JAMES CAAN plays the terrible-tempered eldest brother Sonny in a performance of great force, the perfect foil to Pacino's calculating and withdrawn Michael. Sonny is a character who falls victim to his own passion. The actor playing him could have met the same fate. Caan, however, knows how to make a character broad and boisterous without being overemphatic...
...money was paid into a fund to offset Smith's Davis Cup expenses. Ed Turville, the 1971 team captain who administers the fund, says that its deposits are available only to Smith, who has withdrawn...