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People are allowed to stop to load a car before leaving on a trip, but Burns advises that they lave a note on the windshield, and the police will then allow them some time to pack and pull out. He adds the police are more lenient with the enforcement of the regulations during the first few and last few days of school, when everyone is moving...
...ignores his legal advice and violates the law?" The answer is muddy under the current code, but most lawyers generally reply no. A Syracuse attorney retained by a murder suspect concealed from police the victims' grave site and later offered to trade his information to authorities in return for lenient treatment of his client. Last month the state bar ethics committee ruled that the lawyer had acted properly...
...when he predicted that "still they want more." Perhaps if he had threatened the companies with something more drastic they would have been more willing to compromise on price regulation. However, as events have developed, both the House and Senate versions of Carter's proposal are even more lenient than the original bill. Both give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC, which sounds like several obscene words, all misspelled) the authority to regulate the price of all gas. Both allow the price of newly discovered gas to increase annually from $1.75 per mcf by the rate of inflation plus three...
...other hand, Treasury would take a more lenient than expected stance in taxing money from the sale of a family home. At present, profits on such a sale are not taxed so long as they are reinvested in another home within 18 months. Treasury now proposes in addition to exempt the first $75,000 profit on the sale of a home even if the seller puts the money in the bank rather than using it to buy another house...
...Lenient state laws are being passed favoring mopeds, instead of treating them like bigger motorcycles or cars. A quarter of a million mopeds could be sold this year, about four times the volume of 1976; one Department of Transportation study estimates that three million mopeds could be buzzing over U.S. roads by 1980. Sears, Roebuck, which briefly sold an Austrian-made moped in the early 1960s, then dropped it because of poor sales,* may return to the moped business...