Word: result
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...This is one of the most important decisions handed down by the court in this decade," said Federal Appeals Judge William Wilkins Jr. of South Carolina, the commission's chairman. The result, he said, will be "more uniform, fair and truthful sentences." The impact will reach far beyond the several thousand federal defendants who must now be resentenced. The new system means stiffer penalties for white-collar crimes, 87% of which currently end in probation...
...good member, but they worried about what it would mean for the fraternity. Brown said little, though he let it be known that he was unwilling to finesse the issue by accepting house privileges without full membership. Finally, the fraternity brothers rallied around and initiated him. As a result, the national headquarters of Sigma Phi revoked the chapter's charter. Middlebury responded by barring any fraternity with racial barriers. Eventually, all the college's fraternities repealed their exclusionary clauses...
...AIDS is not the black death, and never will be. Unlike the plague or the common cold, AIDS is not easily spread. The virus is transmitted only through blood and sexual intercourse. No one has been found to get the virus from saliva, tears or toilet seats. As a result of education about AIDS and changes in sex habits, the rate of new infections has sharply dropped in some gay communities. And while the virus can sometimes be transmitted in heterosexual intercourse, the evidence does not indicate that AIDS is about to break out in a big way into...
...Visible Man through most of the Inaugural ceremonies, he delivered what some advisers called his own Inaugural Address at the concluding gala Saturday night. Quayle said he had come to appreciate Winston Churchill's classic line that "nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." He ridiculed the "self-importance" of the "Washington | Establishment" -- rather odd for the Vice President of an Administration dominated by such Establishment types as Bush and most members of the Cabinet...
...initially. Last year, while only about 150,000 cases were reported, experts think as many as 4 million Americans caught chlamydia, often without knowing it. As many as 45% of sexually active teenagers get the infection. Chlamydia may cause 50% of the cases of pelvic inflammatory disease, which can result in abnormal pregnancies and infertility in women...