Word: maximation
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Frankel was moved by the general legal maxim for all-risk insurance: whatever is not clearly excluded is covered. Still, as the jurist wryly admitted, "judges are commissioned to be fallible." Especially in $24,288,759 cases. The guerrilla army of lawyers, who by now have charged an estimated $1,000,000 in fees, have already begun sorting through Frankel's 128 pages of opinion and 56 footnotes as they prepare to fight anew in the appeals court...
...litter is human, to pilfer, divine." Such a maxim might well be carved on every American monument and tourist attraction. For if airmailing a beer can into Yellowstone National Park seems to give pleasure, stealing a hunk of Arizona's petrified forest seems to afford pure bliss...
Following the maxim that when a guy is down you step on him. The New York Times immediately went to work on Biaggi. First they revealed that the Bronx District Attorney had uncovered some undisclosed "new evidence" in a shooting Biaggi committed 14 years ago when he was a policeman...
...should the present system be changed? Senators McGovern and Muskie have proposed workable plans which could save at least $20 billion in lost revenue. The various proposals call for (among other reforms) increases in the low taxes on capital gains, in line with McGovern's campaign maxim that money made by money should be taxed as much as money made by men; further reduction of the depletion allowance on oil, gas and mineral resources; repeal of the 1971 Investment Tax Credit for corporations; reform of estate and gift taxes; the establishment of a minimum tax on persons with high income...
Like their elders, whom they emulate with such verve, the CRNC chief and the soon-to-be fieldmen recognize the maxim of Watergate politics. Internal political operations are to be kept secret--unless you happen to believe in open government or there is a way to spy on the other guy's operations without anybody knowing what...