Word: edicts
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Your very informative article on Napster, the music-file-sharing program [TECHNOLOGY, Oct. 2], drove home one critical point: Napster sends a clear-cut message to the recording industry and also sends a strong edict to the artists themselves. Gone are the days when the consumer was forced to purchase a 15-song album only to end up stuck with 14 mediocre tracks and one stellar one. As people pick and choose music by the song and not the album, recording artists will certainly feel the pressure to provide the consumer with an all-around quality product. One good song...
...family. As a young soldier, Powell and his wife often drove through the state in the early '60s, when the Stars and Bars was raised in defiance of new civil rights laws. And Powell's son Michael married a white woman--a practice well outside Bob Jones' newly abandoned edict against interracial dating. Recently it has been Bush's former rival that Powell has warm feelings for, praising JOHN MCCAIN for his mea culpa over the South Carolina flag issue...
...decision to appeal has consequences for universities across the country. Usually, local NLRB decisions are bound to the region of the deciding board. But any ruling affirmed or overruled on appeal becomes a nationwide edict...
...cites the NLRB's own 1972 edict, which held that students who assist a university in furthering its own goals were mere students under labor laws...
...control proponents hope that Reilly's edict will be quickly mirrored by the 34 states with similar regulations, a situation that could force Congress and the gun manufacturers to the bargaining table. If gun makers find that they are tailoring their products to fit 35 different sets of regulations, they may seek federal redress. In turn, the feds will probably ask for some concessions in making guns safer to own and operate...