Word: penally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...religion, on the other hand, sounded like hawkers, "businessmen of religion." And although Tocqueville found religious observance to be widespread, he judged faith to be shallow, like the belief of his ancestors in spring tonics. He and his companion, Gustave de Beaumont, were supposed to be studying the penal system in the U.S., but in fact they did their best to see everything and talk to everyone. They were friendly observers who very much liked the 24-state nation they saw, despite the rawness of its manners and the crassness of its mercantilism. ("More money-there in two words...
Under Haiti's 1948 Penal Code, no group of more than 20 people can be formed without government permission. Some of the conclusions of a 1978 visit to Haiti of the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights have been published in Amnesty International's 1981 report and are consistent with Amnesty's findings on Haiti...
Regulations restricting abortions were first passed in the 19th century, not because of legislatures' moral objections, but because the operation was so dangerous. By 1962, abortion in a hospital was generally considered safe, but states' Model Penal Codes permitted the operation only if the health of the mother or child was threatened, or in a case of rape or incest. Abortions were rewarded to women who were either ill or rich. Hospitals awarded abortions to those women with diseases that could harm development of the fetus, almost as if in compensation for their illness. Alternatively, women with time and money...
...India Office early in his career and helped formulate the Government of India Act of 1935, which strengthened India's provincial legislatures. As a major architect of England's social reforms and development of the welfare state, he assisted in renovating his country's penal system, modernizing the public drinking laws and shaping an education act that gave every British child free secondary school education...
...celebrity, and may be he's getting the last laugh for all those years of parental disfavor. Not only is he recognized as an important stylist, but he has even been hailed as the quintessential recorder of modem alienation, prophesying in works such as The Trial and "In the Penal Colony" the rise of totalitarianism. Marxists and theologists alike slug it out in studies with titles like The Kafka Problem. The Kafka Debate and even There Goes Kafka; there has even been talk of setting up an East-West dialogue. But the splendor of his posthumous relationship only throws into...