Word: pontiacs
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ACQUITTED. DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, 67, the right-to-die activist; of common-law assisted-suicide charges; in Pontiac, Michigan. The jury's not-guilty verdicts marked prosecutors' third failure to convict "Dr. Death...
PERHAPS NO ONE FITS THE DESCRIPtion "innocent bystander" as well as Tina Bennis. Certainly when she let her husband John take their rundown 1977 Pontiac sedan to work one day in 1988, she did not count on him driving it into Detroit, picking up a prostitute, engaging in a sexual act in the car's front seat--and getting caught. Nor did she know that the state of Michigan would be legally permitted to seize the car involved in a prostitution arrest, even though, in this case, it was co-owned by Tina. With the support of an odd coalition...
...Court ruled that the 1988 seizure of a car used by a man for an assignation with a prostitute was legal, even though the confiscated car belonged to the man's wife. Tina Bennis, the owner of the car, argued that the government's taking of her 1977 Pontiac violated her constitutional rights to due process of law and compensation for seizure. In an impassioned dissent from the Court's decision, Justice John Paul Stevens called the ruling "blatantly unfair," saying the decision would allow the states to "confiscate vast amounts of property." TIME's Adam Cohen reports: "The ruling...
...fellows I played ball with." And of course sooner or later some candidate--even one as sheltered as the Beltway insider Buchanan--had to trip over the bodies of the downsized and notice that the effervescent economy of Wall Street is not the same as the economy of, say, Pontiac, Michigan...
...lower real wages. The only way to reverse this trend is to create more jobs by reducing the standard work week. Shrinking the work week from 40 hours or more to 30 hours would help solve the employment problem caused by the information revolution. JAMES W. RENDER Pontiac, Michigan