Word: portioning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even less successful. Caplan's evidence is telling. After the 1983 passage of the Insanity Defense Reform Act in New York, "less than one half of one percent [of those arrested] avoided the criminal justice system for mental health reasons ... less than 2 percent of this tiny portion successfully plead insanity." None of those who assassinated, or attempted to assassinate, Robert F. Kennedy '48, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., John Lennon, President Gerald Ford or George Wallace, were acquitted by reason of insanity. John Hinckley was the highly publicized exception to a little used rule...
...case in the business ethics portion of the AMP curriculam involved the social responsibility of business. The case, which has not yet been covered this session, raised such questions as, during what kinds of IA programs should business advertise. Should businesses buy stock of South African companies that support the apartheid regime...
...shows the explosion of two shots coming from Agca's gun, and the film's sound track contains two reports from his 9-mm Browning automatic pistol. Martella says that as many as 20 witnesses reported they heard three shots. In addition, he cites a previously undisclosed portion of Agca's confession in which he recalls that "if I found myself unable to fire off at least five pistol shots, Celik also should have fired...
Madison also has an ongoing adversary relationship with the outfitters and ranchers around town who make thousands of dollars each season by leasing their land to hunters. They resent Madison's authority to enforce game laws on private land. "It's big money, and a good portion of them don't let the law stand in their way," Madison explains. "There's great incentive to get an animal, even go over the limit, for a client...
Bozzotto said that the restaurant took in more than a million dollars in 1982 and that the union's demands, which he said would cost the club about $30,000 a year, represent only a small portion of the club's budget...