Word: proofs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...antitrust largely involves traditional questions, such as whether a company conspired to fix prices, divide up markets or drive a weak competitor out of business. A commission appointed by President Carter to review antitrust laws and procedures earlier this year recommended that the standards of proof be relaxed in favor of the Government...
Compared with the other proposals given serious consideration by administrators--quarantining students until they recovered enough to take the exam, scheduling make-ups over spring vacation, or requiring some physical proof of illness such as a high fever before granting a medical excuse--the asterisk proposal seems especially levelheaded...
Rather than press criminal charges against the companies, DOE told them to refund the money, and gave the firms 40 days to appeal to an administrative law judge. Government attorneys fear that meeting the strict, "beyond a reasonable doubt" standard of proof under criminal law would be almost impossible considering the technicalities of the case...
Protesters point to Engelhard's South African connections, including his service on the boards of government agencies involved in recruiting African labor, as proof of his complicity in that country's apartheid regime...
...some detective work. The result: last week John A. Tucci, a Government Printing Office employee who sets Supreme Court rulings in type, was transferred to the U.S. Patent Office. Burger will not say how he concluded that Tucci was the culprit; Tucci says that Burger has no proof...