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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under current Massachusetts law, most unemployed workers are granted weekly benefits roughly equivalent to 50 percent of their average weekly wage for the previous year...

Author: By Michael J. Bonin, | Title: Immigrants Rally at State House | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

There is a reason that the press is afforded such leeway--leeway which law enforcement officials do not have. The fourth estate has an important role in the political process of the United States, as a kind of watchdog over officials and institutions. The press is expected to scrutinize what public officials do not, and therefore must be allowed greater investigative freedom...

Author: By Jonathan S. Cohn, | Title: Missing the Point | 4/4/1989 | See Source »

...mind the protection of child-porn video, which did not exist in the 18th century either. Nowhere does the Constitution say the right to bear arms means the right to bear any or all arms. Which arms is the real issue. At present, firepower has outstripped the law's power to contain it within rational limits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The N.R.A. in A Hunter's Sights | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...artists working the phones are robbing consumers of $1 billion or more every year. So far, law-enforcement officials can do little to stop them. -- As the U.S. gulps more oil and discovers less, imports are taking off. -- Small farmers love him, but pesticide makers think he's poison. Don't mess around with Jim Hightower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 14 APRIL 3, 1989 | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

...LAW: A Supreme Court boost for drug testing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Magazine Contents Page Vol. 133 No. 14 APRIL 3, 1989 | 4/3/1989 | See Source »

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