Word: ordered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thought the punitive should've stood. In punitive damages you're allowed to show the wealth of the defendant...it doesn't hurt if you penalize a billion dollar company $50,000, you have to penalize them in the millions of dollars, in order to make them change, change their goddamn gas tanks...The judge compared it with his salary and he dropped...
Since 1865, the Harvard Club of New York has served, as its charter states, "to promote social intercourse among ourselves and others, our associates and our successors, who have been connected to Harvard University." "Conspicuous displays" of paper or anything else are out of order at this musty, but strong New York institution, one of the more venerable of the many Harvard clubs across the country...
...pervades the building. The wood paneling, carefully polished floors and gracious service of the staff remind elder members of a bygone era and appeal to the younger members as part of a Harvard they never knew. The club has changed over the years, but "conspicuous displays" remain out of order at the Harvard Club...
...Social Security's basic guarantees must not change, says Gore. So he proposes pouring more revenue into the program in order to fund the retirement of the baby boomers without having to raise payroll taxes or cut benefits. Since the Social Security system cannot keep big cash reserves of its own, Gore relies on a two-step process: He uses $3.5 trillion of the projected surpluses over the next 12 years to pay down the entire national debt; then he takes the resulting savings in interest payments (which by 2015 will amount to more than $220 billion a year...
...Times, in order to reach its destination of Hillary approval ("We are placing our bet on her to rise above the mistakes and difficulties of her first eight years in Washington and to establish herself on Capitol Hill as a major voice for enlightened social policy and vibrant internationalism") is forced to skate across a thousand yards of very thin logical and civic...