Word: conducting
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...hurting, there are some who are hurting us." The city passed an ordinance last fall making "aggressive begging" punishable by as much as 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Minneapolis lawmakers followed suit in February, ruling that no person shall "grab, follow, or engage in conduct which reasonably tends to arouse alarm or anger in others." Portland has also passed a "pedestrian-interference" law. Some officials admit that the ordinances are hard to enforce but are useful as a threat. Says Seattle Police Captain Jim Deschane, who counts about 150 arrests since his city's measure was passed...
...Above all, through the skillful and unobtrusive administering of drugs, there was control of the agonizing pain that is often bound to terminal cancer. "What I did," says Dame Cicely, "was to allow patients to speak for themselves, to suggest what we ought to do to give them safe conduct...
...across the nation. The judges, who are retired from the regular bench, preside for fees that usually range from $150 to $300 an hour. In many cases, they act merely as arbitrators or nonbinding mediators. But in California and in at least a dozen other states, they can also conduct proceedings -- like the Harper- Lorimar trial -- that have most of the trappings of regular court sessions, including depositions, witnesses and verdicts. The parties in the Harper- Lorimar dispute will jointly pay court costs of $15,000 a week, including $250 an hour for Judge Hogoboom. The case will be decided...
...Joseph Wapner of TV's People's Court, which is in effect a televised private proceeding. But the system has spread. Judicate, a Philadelphia-based network of some 450 judges, has handled nearly 800 cases this year in 34 states. In some of the states where hired judges can conduct virtual trials, the verdicts can also be reviewed by the regular appeals courts...
...repudiate the very idea of making such distinctions) and we should not be surprised when it is 'misused.' " But people who gather to live in groups have always made distinctions, rules that impinged on their freedom: this is acceptable; that is taboo. Existing together without a code of conduct seems unimaginable. Deciding what is normal behavior is an act everyone performs all the time. Masson would like to see the day when such judgments have gone the way of the dunking stool and the rack. But the course he would follow means not just the abolition of psychotherapy...