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...darkness, the narrow bridge where the car fell, it was an accident, a true accident." Actually, under Massachusetts law, a charge of manslaughter, which requires "willful or wanton" conduct, would have been very unlikely. Even assuming the worst, Kennedy's actions would probably not have met that extreme criterion...
...also turn to even older legal guidelines. The laws of the high seas, for example, call for freedom of navigation even while they allow nations to exploit specific areas for commercial, scientific, and-in the case of nuclear tests-military purposes. Maritime laws generally use "reasonableness" as the criterion for how much benefit one nation may derive from the sea-a standard that will probably apply when the question arises of how big a slice of the moon the U.S. can claim for scientific use. Spacefaring nations may also turn to Antarctica for legal precedents. There, all states involved...
...holders of masters degrees in business administration who start at a minimum of $12,500 [June 13] may be glad to work for half of that 20 years from now, if the experience of their elders is any criterion. The crime of American business is that it pays more for a 25-year-old than for a 45-year-old. In fact, not one blue-chip company will even hire anyone over...
...only 33% of the whites thought so. Again, "If you don't look out for yourself, nobody else will" is a statement accepted by 75% of the Negroes but only by 47% of the whites. Increasingly, following one's own bent openly and unapologetically has become a criterion of moral conduct...
...called for the Corporation to specify the amount of Harvard's financial commitment and its criterion for judging "low" and "middle" income ranges...