Word: aspenization
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...service should prove invaluable to legislators who would need an army of researchers to dig up all the statutes and Supreme Court decisions that would be helpful in drafting new bills. And they may miss a few. Already, 31 states from New Hampshire to Hawaii have contracts with Aspen...
...customer can ask for the law on any topic, such as gun-control, and the machines will deliver the full text for every statute containing that phrase. Depending on the scope of the request, Aspen's computers take about eight hours for a 50-state search, which may cost between $1,000 and $4,000. Some examples of how the data bank has been used...
...When Robert McNamara was Secretary of Defense, his office hired Aspen to scour the U.S. Code for every mention of his title. McNamara wanted to know about all his statutory duties, no matter how obscure...
...Iowa's Governor Robert Ray asked Aspen to hunt for every statute in his state that requires him to make an appointment to high office before a given date. Ray had almost neglected to fill one position before the deadline, and he did not want that to happen again...
...national food corporation wanted to attach nipples for baby bottles outside the package of a product as a sales device. When Aspen found that this would violate health laws in several states, the company abandoned the plan...