Word: lawlessness
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...choice advocates called it terrorism, illegal under the U.S. Supreme Court's description of "explicit threats of imminent lawless action...
...working too well. Usually, technology and business race ahead to new frontiers, while the rules necessary to constrain behavior in these areas struggle to catch up. In the 19th century, vagabonds and fools flocked west seeking their fortune, and in some places, like mining towns, they built a virtually lawless society. Only later, when sheriffs and judges arrived, did these areas begin to achieve a degree of civilization. In the 1980s, Wall Street invented new financial instruments like junk bonds and mortgage-backed bonds, only to abuse these Byzantine new securities because no one else understood them. When the courts...
...users proved that online music distribution was a feasible opportunity. Still, the chaotic interim period simply did not last long enough. The recording industry sued Napster within a year of its founding, and with the Patel ruling now on the books, the door has officially been closed on the lawless period of Internet music distribution. No one knows if Napster's model could even produce a viable business, as Napster has been a free service since Day 1, and now with the law firmly against Napster, we may never know...
...impair national security or cause great harm to the national interest" and therefore ineligible to go abroad. Shocked and bewildered as to "how two ordinary workers could possess state secrets," Meng asked to see the charges against her in writing. The police denied her request and called her "wildly lawless." So the couple made the long trip to Beijing to petition the national police. Again they were turned away empty handed?instructed to write a letter detailing their complaint and ordered back to Wuhan to wait for the government's decision...
...southeastern Bosnian town of Foca. The tribunal found that rape was "used by members of the Bosnian Serb armed forces as an instrument of terror" to get the Muslims of Foca to leave after Serbs overran the town. Presiding judge Florence Mumba called the defendants "lawless opportunists [who] should expect no mercy" for their roles in a "nightmarish scheme of sexual exploitation." The judge noted that women and girls, one as young as 12 years old, were detained in various locations in Foca, taken out nightly to be gang-raped and tortured, "robbed of the last vestiges of human dignity...