Word: circumventions
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A year after it struck down a Texas law barring flag desecration on the ground that it violated the First Amendment's protection of free speech, the Supreme Court last week threw out a law Congress subsequently passed to circumvent that ruling. The 5-to-4 vote was the same...
Durenberger has insisted that "it was never my intent to circumvent Senate rules for my own benefit. I made every effort to seek opinion from the appropriate bodies and from legal counsel." But the Senator may also have violated the law: use of a Senate building for commercial purposes like...
Durenberger's book arrangement was almost twice as remunerative as a similar scheme that contributed to the forced resignation of House speaker Jim Wright last year. After reaching the Senate limit on outside income from speeches, Durenberger in 1985 and 1986 made 113 additional appearances before groups that sent speaking...
Moscow and Tokyo have an agreement that limits the annual catch Japan can take from those waters. According to Japanese investigators, the Shoho Fisheries Co. struck a deal with a North Korean fishing outfit to lease Japanese boats and market the catch, rigging the ships with Korean flags to circumvent...
To circumvent U.S. immigration laws, thousands of aliens are paying smugglers as much as $38,000 to enter the country illegally. -- Andrew Tobias on the S&L junk sale.