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...loss of federal grants and subsidized loans could costly add several thousand dollars more to these criminal penalties. In such circumstances it would start common sense to argue that the willingness of the University to offer a regular job or an unsubsidized loan could encourage disrespect for law or flout the will of Congress...
...suicides occur, finally agreed with a judge to put no more than four prisoners in space designed to hold three. In Texas, where until a year ago 2,000 inmates had to sleep on the floor, officials for one week in May simply stopped admitting new prisoners rather than flout Judge Justice's order. Illinois is appealing last year's federal court order to house inmates in single cells, which officials estimate would require $400 million in new construction. Michigan (like Iowa and Minnesota) has a law that automatically provides for releasing inmates when overcrowding becomes abject. Twice this year...
...course, can be expected to sit still while others prepare to attack it. But, particularly with Syria divided at home and tied down abroad, no such threat loomed last month. It is thus ironic that a nation that thrives on--and usually deserves--a peace-loving reputation should so flout international...
...B.N.A. Act and then give authority over the document to Canada. The British were willing in principle, providing the Canadian Supreme Court agreed. In its ruling, the court said that Trudeau could ask for the B.N.A. Act. But it also ruled that any prior tinkering with the act would flout unwritten constitutional tradition unless it went hand in hand with "at least a substantial measure of provincial consent...
Federal officials estimate that up to 6 million illegal aliens now reside in the U.S. Last year alone as many as 1.5 million unauthorized immigrants eluded American border patrols. This swelling reservoir of willing workers makes it easy for unscrupulous businessmen to flout U.S. labor laws. A Labor Department survey completed last year found that 5% of U.S. businesses paid less than the minimum wage, and 21% failed to give time and a half for overtime hours...