Word: overlapped
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friday, a federal appeals court overturned a district court ruling that the practice, known as overlap, violated the Sherman Antitrust Act, remanding the case back to the lower court for further examination...
...earlier court decision was for the Justice Department, which argued that the process of finan- cial aid overlap was a violation of the ShermanAntitrust Act. Under the overlap process, theeight Ivy League schools and MIT would meet eachyear to discuss prospective students who had beenadmitted to more than one of the schools andcollectively set financial aid awards for them...
...appeals court, in turn, decided that theschools' nonprofit status and advancement ofsocial benefit may affect whether overlap violatesthe Sherman...
Thane D. Scott, MIT's attorney, originallyargued that the practice of overlap was sociallybeneficial, since it allowed more money to beallotted for poor students and made education moreaccessible in general...
...Many people who are most fearful of crime have the least reason to be fearful," says James Q. Wilson, a social scientist at UCLA. "If you map the fear of crime and map the actual crime range, you note that they don't overlap." But, he says, "that doesn't mean people are irrational. It simply means that everyone is aware that we live in a far more dangerous society and, in fact, the self-protective measures they take do tend to protect them. They are acting correctly, rationally...