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...prospect of mechanically consulting their punishment tables like an abacus leaves most judges dismayed. "I know of nobody who's keen to enforce this approach," says U.S. District Court Judge Laughlin Waters of Los Angeles. "Most judges don't want sentencing guidelines, period," admits Chairman William Wilkins of South Carolina, a federal appeals judge. But, he adds, "we all recognize we need a system where there is certainty and fairness. Without guidelines that is impossible." The absence of outright enthusiasm from any quarter for the commission's approach may be inevitable. As Stanford Criminal Law Professor John Kaplan says...
...boycott over Coors' union policy continues. According to John Laughlin of the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, the boycott will end, "When either Coors allows a free undeterred [union] election or when they settle a collective bargaining agreement with Brewery Workers Local...
...They had stronger and bigger hitters," Columbia Coach Cindy Laughlin said. "Harvard is definitely a powerhouse team...
Alarmed by reports of widespread drug and alcohol use at its Laughlin, Nev., generating station, the Southern California Edison Co. organized its own raid. Corporate managers and security officers cut the personal padlocks off 400 employee lockers to rummage through the contents. They searched cars in the parking lot and even frisked a few workers. Seven employees were fired for possessing drugs or alcohol at work in violation of company rules...
Sixty percent of the monikers stem from mergers, acquisitions or divestitures. Republic Steel and Jones & Laughlin Steel merged into LTV Steel. Other conversions occur because executives are looking for a new style. Zenith Radio sought to be up-to-date by becoming Zenith Electronics. International Harvester, a truck manufacturer that was near bankruptcy two years ago, plans to change its name this year. It may become Navistar, evoking an image of starry skies instead of cornfields. A heavy truck by any other name, however, is unlikely to be sweeter...