Word: coded
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Three Law professors yesterday differed in their reactions to a bill passed Monday by the Senate providing for the complete overhaul of the federal criminal code. The bill would substantially alter the current methods of sentencing, and change federal laws regarding conspiracy, rape, sedition, corporate abuse and civil liberties...
Another feature of the new criminal code is to raise the maximum corporate fine from $50,000 to $500,000. Vorenberg said a $500,000 fine would hurt corporations more than $50,000, while Dershowitz advocated a penalty proportional to a corporation's illegal profits...
...code would also exempt the press from prosecution for stealing government documents, if those documents are taken with the sole intent of making them public. "It is impossible to go too far in the area of freedom of speech and of the press," Dershowitz said...
...under his leadership Bendix was known in business circles as one of the best-managed companies in the country. Beyond increasing sales and profits, Blumenthal argued forcefully, business also has a social role. Long before it became fashionable, he conducted an outspoken campaign for corporations to adopt a code of ethics, urging others to emulate Bendix's openly professed policy of refusing to make payoffs to win orders...
...reflect yet another shift in the national mood and the social mode. If the signs are to be believed-and sociologists are sure to debate their significance-the cool-hip chic that has held sway since the 1960s, with its scorn of sentiment and its do-your-own-thing code, is giving way gradually to something suspiciously like a new romanticism. Says Psychologist Sol Gordon, professor of child and family studies at Syracuse University: "Americans no longer want to be cool; they want...