Word: leniently
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Reagan Administration critics quickly attacked the new rules as too lenient to Big Business, there seems little likelihood that the regulations will unleash a new wave of Wall Street merger mania. They actually just put down in a more formal fashion the policy followed by the Reagan Administration during the past year and a half...
...permits the debtor to keep certain assets for his own survival: up to a $7,500 equity in his house, for example, and up to a $1,200 interest in a car. The list of exemptions even includes up to $500 worth of jewelry. Some states are still more lenient; California allows the head of a household to keep up to $45,000 in his home. On the other hand, the debtor cannot again declare insolvency for six years...
...Justices had little in the court's past to guide them. In 1954 they appointed a special counsel when a challenge to the Virgin Islands' lenient divorce laws struck them as halfhearted. And the court has occasionally appointed lawyers for indigent or inadequately represented litigants, as it did in 1963 when Abe Fortas was asked to argue Clarence Gideon's landmark right-to-counsel case. But such examples are scarcely parallel. In the current tax cases, says Democratic Congressman Don Edwards of California, "the question is: 'Is the Justice Department interested in enforcing civil rights...
...drivers a crime in itself, rather than merely evidence of intoxication that must be buttressed by other proof. (To score .10%, a 160-lb. man would have to consume 5½ beers on an empty stomach in 90 minutes.) Even the judiciary, often criticized for being too lenient with drunken drivers, is becoming stern. Judges in Quincy, Mass., have agreed to put every first offender in jail for three days...
...dence is Tejero's popularity with the extreme right wing. His supporters circulate Tejero key rings, Tejero posters and even bogus Tejero bank notes. Ironically, the future of Spanish democracy may again be in the hands of officers: the 16 military judges presiding over the court-martial. A lenient sentence would outrage many Spaniards. But a harsh one could provoke a dangerous right-wing backlash - and possibly even another coup attempt...