Word: consents
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Civil Death. In some states, a life prisoner is stripped of his property, his marriage is dissolved, and his children may be adopted without his consent. No matter if he is later rehabilitated and paroled-he is "civilly dead." In many states, felony results in permanent loss of the right to vote, to sue, to enter contracts, to transfer or inherit property, to hold public office, to testify, to serve as a juror and to take civil service examinations. Even after he pays his debt to society, a felon may be barred for life from all sorts of positions requiring...
...countries, which contend that they must have preferential tariffs in order to escape their poverty. Under French pressure on behalf of France's former colonies, the Common Market failed to trim duties at all on tropical foods and fibers, thus stopping the U.S. from doing so. By common consent, devising more tariff help for the world's poor nations will be GATT's next order of business...
...Entry to apartments by Harvard personnel without consent of the occupants...
...Silence gives consent." So runs an ancient maxim of common law, and from that maxim flows a widely applied legal principle: the rule of tacit admission. On the theory that an innocent man would loudly deny a serious charge, the rule holds that a suspect silent in the face of an accusation has tacitly admitted the crime. And such silence can later be introduced at his trial as an indicator of guilt...
Divorced. By Sheila MacRae, 43, nightclub comedienne and long-suffering but saber-tongued second TV wife of Jackie Gleason in The Honeymooners; Gordon MacRae, 46, pop balladeer and film star (Oklahoma!, Carousel): by mutual consent on grounds of incompatibility; after 25 years of marriage, four children; in Juarez, Mexico...