Word: reflects
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Some sentences should vary, of course, according to the character and prior record of the defendant. The fact that shoplifters usually go to jail if they get caught in Charlotte, N.C., whereas they get probation in Albuquerque, may just reflect different local mores. As New York Criminal Court Judge Harold Rothwax says, "Communities have a right to view crime differently." Mandatory sentences set by the legislature, which several states use for at least some crimes, can be more heavy-handed than evenhanded. Such laws cannot distinguish, for instance, between someone who steals to feed his family and someone who steals...
Since the transactions reflect the real price that buyers are willing to pay, the deals are closely watched by OPEC members for signs that the cartel's long-term prices could be increased. Spot prices have eased from a peak of $42 per bbl. in late May to about $30 to $32 per bbl., but fears of production cuts have stopped the slide...
Krauss also said he hoped to make the administration behind the design codes more flexible. He said that these codes should reflect citizen input as well as the designer's and should serve as guidelines to help the designer, not restrain...
...latter is no longer a pompous vampire hunter but an ordinary professor whose daughter. Mina, becomes Dracula's first victim in England. No corny lines remain; at his most indulgent, Richter keeps an episode in which Dracula hurls a candelabra into a magnificent drawing room mirror that does not reflect his image. "Pardon me," he tells Van Helsing, matter-of-factly, "I dislike mirrors...
...Chris Ogden, who raced to buttonhole civic leaders and senior White House aides as they arrived back in Washington: "However frustrating a sequestered summit is for reporters-and it is indeed frustrating-they seem to be the vogue for the Carter Administration. And if Carter feels they help him reflect more clearly and plan more thoroughly, then who are we to complain...