Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...where "prison-impact statements" are attached to any proposed legislation that might lead to more arrests or longer sentences. One such report was connected to a recent bill that would have added ten years to the sentence for any crime committed with a firearm. It estimated that if the law were passed, so many new convicts would be sentenced to longer terms that it would cost $63.5 million to construct and operate the required prison facilities. A committee of the legislature tabled the bill...
...fiery Gdlyan, 48, spent five years uncovering a corruption scandal in Uzbekistan and became a popular hero when it led to the conviction last year of Yuri Churbanov, son-in-law of the late Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev...
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...antibiotic, they'll sprout again anywhere." For Hurlbut, the medicine involves marshaling public awareness and applying legal pressure. "We're not on a moral crusade," he insists. "The porn people are folks like you and me, trying to make a living. We just want them to obey the law...
...drive home, he wheels up to a fading stucco relic aside the four-lane. Shut down long ago, the nude club's blue canopy still flaps amid the weeds and litter, and a garish neon sign towers skyward. "Twenty warrants for prostitution and narcotics," he recalls. "Public-nuisance law and county ordinance. We sent them packing...