Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LaFontaine said the bill must still clear several hurdles before becoming law, including votes in the Senate, a final vote in the House and possibly a House-Senate conference committee to clear up differences between the two chambers' versions of the bill...
...There is no mandate for building inspection [in Cambridge law]," said Joseph Cellucci, Cambridge's commissioner of inspectional services. "We don't inspect for structural integrity." But he said if a complaint were field, his department would arrange for an outside consultant to examine the structure...
Since last October the boys have been exiled from class because the school prohibits male hair below the shoulders. Theirs reaches the middle of their backs. Last year short-haired Wilkinson tutored them at home, but was later fined $25 for violating the compulsory school-attendance law. He has hired a lawyer, Darrell McAlexander, with shoulder-length hair and a drooping Fu Manchu mustache...
When the casinos finally came, they caught both the city and the state completely unprepared. Then Governor Brendan Byrne was so intent on keeping casinos out of the hands of organized crime that much of his energy went into developing a body of law and a bureaucracy that would do the job. As a result, the two regulatory agencies that enforce the formidable Casino Control Act spend $59 million annually to police twelve casinos, in contrast to $15.7 million for 285 casinos in Nevada. The two agencies can, in the words of Carl Zeitz, a former member of the casino...
...electoral law, Russians protest, will exclude 80,000 to 100,000 of them from voting in Estonia's first competitive elections in December. Another law makes it necessary for all people to speak Estonian (as different from Russian as Hungarian is from English) to get a job. Though Russians have four years to comply, they protest angrily that there are not enough teachers or textbooks available for all of them to learn...