Word: existed
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...criteria exist to guide the Corps of Engineers in planning projects or Congress in reviewing and authorizing them, Maass and Cooper point out. "Since World War II, no President has initiated legislation to establish a consistent set of standards," they complain...
Frenchmen whose names have not been accepted are legal nonpersons, cannot marry, vote or receive welfare payments. In the eyes of French law, six of the twelve children of Mireille and Jean-Jacques Manrot-le Goarnic do not exist-because their parents gave them the Breton names of Adraboran, Brann, Diwezha, Gwendall, Maiwenn and Sklerijenn. Papa Goarnic has fought the case for five years, carrying it even to the World Court, but has lost every round...
...seemingly barren surface revealed by Mariner 4's remarkable photographs last July dashed the hopes of many scientists that some form of life may exist on Mars. But their pessimism may be premature. At the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Berkeley last week, Harvard Astronomer Carl Sagan suggested that a Martian version of Mariner 4 would have transmitted equally discouraging pictures of the Earth. "Had the Mariner 4 vehicle passed the same distance from the Earth that it did from Mars (6,000 miles) and obtained 22 comparable photographs," Sagan declared...
...result, amazing disparities exist between states. The time served for homicide in Texas is usually about 5½ years, in Illinois 16½ years. The maximum sentence for inducing abortion ranges from one year in Kansas to 20 years in Mississippi. For statutory rape, a man can get a $500 fine in Maine, ten years in New York, 50 years in California, 99 years in New Mexico, and death in Delaware...
...responsible critic argues that all 50 states can or should have uniform sentences. Cattle rustling, for example, is obviously more antisocial in Texas than in Connecticut. Even so, astonishing inequities also exist within the laws of a single state. In California, a boy who breaks into a car and rifles the glove compartment can get up to 15 years; for stealing the whole car, he gets no more than ten years. In Colorado, dog stealing is punishable by ten years; dog killing, by six months and a $500 fine. In Minnesota, the maximum sentence for "carnal knowledge" of a girl...