Word: code
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...found among disgruntled tenants in his own vermin- infested tenement in Los Angeles. Avol, 64, has been sentenced to live in his building for 30 days while monitored by an electronic device on his leg. The physician earned the nickname "Ratlord" after accumulating hundreds of health- and building-code violations on his four Los Angeles apartment houses since...
Conspiracy. A broad-gauged section of the U.S. Code makes it a crime to conspire to defraud the Federal Government of money or property; the doctrine also applies to efforts to interfere with the proper functioning of any Government agency. Though it is difficult to prove conspiracy, siphoning off arms-sales profits that may have belonged to the U.S. Treasury, selling weapons under incorrect procedures, and the jumble of other deceptions could qualify. North was named, but not indicted, as a co-conspirator in a tax fraud involving improper deductions claimed for contributions used to purchase contra arms...
...Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner says the "egregiousness" of Markowski's actions led to the attempted murder charge. California health code provisions that might apply to AIDS carry only misdemeanor penalties. In Fresno, authorities had used that code two weeks earlier to bring misdemeanor charges against an accused prostitute suspected of carrying the AIDS virus. She could get up to 90 days in prison for the alleged violation. Local Prosecutor James Oppliger cannot recall, however, any previous case in which the communicable-disease law has been invoked. Says he: "We're not sure how viable the charge will...
Perhaps a true honor code, stricter systems of discipline administered by students themselves, and a more democratic from of governance at Harvard can be the answer. Whatever the answer is, it is evident that the ethical instruction at the majority of today's colleges and universities are lacking and have produced many students who are coldly self-centered and lost in today's world. More needs to be done. It is hard to believe that what is billed as the greatest system of higher education in the world cannot do better...
Lawson ran into trouble in San Diego, where, as an "avid pedestrian," he was stopped repeatedly for vagrancy on his midnight walks, prosecuted twice and convicted once under a provision of the state's penal code that required him to produce "credible and reliable" identification for any police officer who had reason to be suspicious. Lawson saw the matter simply: he was black, his looks were not conventional, and he was treading white sidewalks. His suit called the law unconstitutionally vague and said it violated the Fourth Amendment's guarantee against "unreasonable searches and seizures" and the Fifth Amendment...