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...Court's decision is, as the dissentors state, a "manifest injustice" because it denies the tribes their rightful claim under the Court's own apportionment formula. The majority notes that the tribes are not currently using their full water allotment, but it is unrealistic to assume that they will have no future need for the contested rights. Even if the tribes have no immediate demand for the extra water itself. They do have an urgent need for revenue that could be generated by leasing the access rights...
...State Board of Regents will determine the allocations formula...
...economic formula is the "responsibility system" approved last September by the congress of the Communist Party, which meets periodically to decide government policy. Many of the old Maoist economic shibboleths, including the idea that incentives should not be used to promote productivity, have been cast aside. Instead, in keeping with Deng's dictum that "a cat, whether black or white, is a good one as long as it catches mice," the government has turned to such capitalistic devices as bonuses, commissions and competition to rejuvenate China's sluggish economy...
...discuss the adoption of a new code of legal ethics. Yet the actions of the lawyer's convention were important and potentially far reaching. In a controversial and unfortunate vote, the 383-member House of Delegates decided to alter the proposed ethical code. Instead, they opted for a formula which casts the lawyer as little but the servant of his client, bound to act in the best interests of that client even if it means disregarding the integrity of the law or the interests of the public...
...conversation between the Harvard student and then-Dunster House tutor Erich Segal continue until Segal offers his formula for the Harvard novel "A preppy and poor but beautiful girl: she dies...