Word: legality
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...auto industry would win them few friends. One option the bondholders have is to try to seize the factories. But that would jeopardize the partsmakers too, and the banks are also holding the paper for many industry suppliers. If the factories shut down as a result of a legal battle, so would the partsmakers...
...sentences of 15 years to life for possession of four ounces of narcotics - about the same as a sentence for second-degree murder. The statutes became known as the Rockefeller Drug Laws - a milestone in America's war on drugs and the subject of one of the most abrasive legal tug-of-wars in the nation. The laws almost immediately led to an increase in drug convictions, but no measurable decrease in overall crime. Meanwhile, critics argued that they criminalized what was primarily a public health problem, incarcerated nonviolent felons who were better off in treatment, caused a jump...
...Founded two major companies, one dealing with paper-processing. The nature of the other business is unknown. Medvedev is also the author of several legal textbooks...
...provided both an impetus and another obstacle to experimenting with new ways of disseminating scholarship,” she said. Both Maco and McLaughlin emphasized the importance of expanding university presses’ digital presence. Maco said she was excited to see the Press’ first online legal journal as well as the availability of HUP books on Amazon’s wireless reading device, Kindle. She also said that because many of HUP’s books are targeted at a specific subset of academia, the Press probably has not been missing out on reaching much...
...This event is making me nervous," says Katina Garrard, a quiet, pale woman watching the phone toss. Garrard was a legal ethics assistant at International Paper in Memphis, Tennessee until three months ago, when her company announced extensive layoffs. Memphis is a small city and none of the major corporations were hiring, so Garrard picked up for New York, where she thought the opportunities would be - "well, not plentiful, but at least they would exist." She attended a job fair earlier in the day, but it just depressed her. "There were lines and lines of people hoping...