Word: laws
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...calls for an expanded program of federal "educational opportunity grants" to 1,000,000 students who could not otherwise afford college. Under the terms of the proposed grants, direct federal assistance would go to students rather than colleges. As a result, colleges would find themselves competing for students. The law of the marketplace would prevail, and institutions would have extra incentive to at tract students by making courses more responsive to their needs and desires. Since tuition alone no longer covers the cost of college instruction, additional federal assistance would be funneled directly to the colleges in proportion...
...neutrality of its politicians. Numbered accounts were introduced in the 1930s to thwart Nazi Germany from hunting down assets hidden abroad by its citizens, mostly German Jews. As a rule, only one or two top bank officers know the identity of holders of such accounts. Under Swiss law, those who do know have a "duty to observe silence of professional secrecy." Otherwise they face a fine of up to $5,000 and six months in jail...
...used their shells to break the power of France in Europe. The Kaiser presided over their marriage plans, and misused their steel and submarines to lose the first World War. Hitler was awed by them. Deep in World War II, he took time out to write a special law (the Lex Krupp) to keep their family fortune intact. In the minds of many men in many lands, the Krupp name became synonymous with the cold pursuit of cash, steel and power, indeed, with the shame and fortune of Germany itself. Early in the century, H. G. Wells could place...
...editors of the Harvard Law Review voted Monday to print an unprecedented editorial statement condemning the war in Vietnam as being "morally wrong...
...Law Review has rarely taken editorial stands, and the forthcoming statement will be its first commentary on the Vietnam...