Word: rule
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...become inverted. I am not so naive as to think that pre-marital sex never existed before the advent of the "sexual revolution," but if we are to believe the statistics, the incidence of pre-marital relations in earlier times was at least the exception and not the general rule...
...Charleston, to find support for that proposition. Now he has found three people who agree with him--and they're three who count. In October three justices of the state's supreme court--a majority--supported Condon's assertion. The court thus became the first in the U.S. to rule that a viable fetus could be considered "a person" under child-abuse laws and that a pregnant woman carrying it could be charged with doing harm, even with murder. Similar arguments were earlier rejected by five other state supreme courts and a handful of lower courts across the country...
Perhaps--unless that historian is Ed Ball. His clan stretches back to Englishman Elias ("Red Cap") Ball, who came to Carolina in 1698 for his inheritance of 740 acres and 25 slaves. His descendants would ultimately rule 25 plantations and 4,000 slaves. As a child, Ed Ball heard tales of war heroes and beautiful plantations; slaves were rarely mentioned. Ball's father once quipped about matters not to be discussed: "Religion, sex, death, money--and the Negroes." When slavery did come up, two assertions were made as God's truth: We were good to our Negroes. There...
...company began showing off its products at trade shows that attracted foreign importers. Like many other American exporters, however, Link had to modify its products to sell overseas. Japanese regulators, for instance, require a different moisture-to-protein ratio in imported meats than is the rule...
East Asia's troubles rest in large part on the region's intricately developed system of crony capitalism, in which personal connections trump the rule of law or markets almost every time. "What now has to be addressed is reform of banking systems, the improvement of supervisory and regulatory functions of governments," says Robert Hormats, vice chairman of Goldman, Sachs International...