Word: aids
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...computer, such distinctive patterns could be kept on file without too much difficulty. With gun owners carrying a license and a registration card for every weapon, ammunition could also be registered and sold only to those with proper credentials. Such all-embracing registration would aid police in both detection and prevention of crimes. Finally, proponents of gun-law reform argue that, just as prospective drivers must undergo examinations, the applicant for a license to possess a gun should be required to pass a thorough written exam and a proficiency test in handling it. At present, no tests are given...
Founded by the Blessed Gerard in Jerusalem in the 11th century to care for pilgrims to the Holy Land, the order has returned to a mission close to its original calling. The knights support a worldwide program of medical aid and refugee relief that extends to 42 countries. Of some 8,000 members, only 40 take the order's religious vows...
...federal court last year, New York City Housewife Florence Flast and six other taxpayers argued that far more than three pence of their tax money was involved in a federal aid-to-education program that paid for tutoring in parochial schools. But their case was dismissed for lack of "standing." The gist of "standing," the Supreme Court once explained, is whether a plaintiff's personal stake in the suit is enough "to assure sharp prosecution of the issues." And a taxpayer's stake has been held too small to support a suit contending that a federal expenditure exceeded...
Chief Justice Warren, who wrote the majority opinion, emphasized that the ruling had nothing to do with the merits of the contentions about federal aid to parochial schools. That problem will have to be dealt with by the lower court, where the argument started...
...students in all private schools-including religious schools. Members of the board of education for both Rensselaer and Columbia counties argued that such programs violate the First Amendment ban on "establishment of religion." Last week the court upheld the state. New York's law, it said, was an aid to children, not religion...