Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state that the "numbers game" drains Harlem of $50 million a year. Much of this probably comes out of welfare checks. If the state or city government were to set up a legal numbers game, not only could this $50 million be diverted from the pockets of racketeers, but it could be pumped back into Harlem in the form of improved education, vocational training, recreational facilities and other worthwhile projects designed to build productive, first-class citizens...
Beyond all that, a pool owner's biggest legal risk is the obvious one that guests or trespassers may be hurt or drowned. Although injuries are frequent, the pool industry claims only 3.7 fatalities a year per 10,000 pools, and suits involving pool-drowned children are still relatively few. Still, the steady proliferation of pools suggests that owners had best beware...
...what may be the year's prize legal oddment, a canny convicted robber has just used Britain's stern libel laws to win a $45,000 judgment against no less a personage than the detective who sent him to jail eleven years...
David N. Bailey, president of the Riverside Neighborhood Association, explained that the project had bogged down temporarily because "most of our key people, legal advisors and such, are vacationing and not available...
...million home, IBM had to shift 1,150 employees and tons of electronic equipment from its old Madison Avenue headquarters. For those who wished to move into houses and apartments closer to their new office, the company paternalistically assumed the role of real estate agent, absorbed legal fees, made short-term loans, and even paid for carpeting and drapery alterations made necessary by the move. IBM also carefully considered the possible discomforts of moving so far from the big city, was most concerned about the schedules of such top executives as Chairman Thomas J. Watson Jr., who is often called...