Word: hig
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Public Service Professor of Jurisprudence in the Kennedy School of Government A. Leon Hig-ginbotham Jr., who moderated the event, brought up the issue of race at the outset...
...rose 1.23 to 462.05. NASDAQ stocks dipped 0.26 to 755.37. Meanwhile, Treasury bond prices fell -- and yields climbed -- as bond traders registered their disappointment over the Fed's decision not to stifle inflation. The yield on the benchmark 30-year Treasury rose to a 27-month hig...
...incidence of adultery laws, as well as statutes prohibiting fornication (two unmarried people having sex), traces a hig-gledy-piggledy pattern across the national map. Adultery is still illegal in about half the 50 states, including New York, Massachusetts and Michigan; enforcement of the strictures is normally a dead letter. But since there is no organized constituency to demand their repeal, the prohibitions remain as bludgeons to be picked up in marital brawls. Says Ronald Allen, a professor of law at Northwestern University: "Who wants to come out in public in favor of adultery?" Primarily, the American Civil Liberties Union...