Word: sanctions
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...lead opinion, Justice William Rehnquist reasoned that the singling out of males for punishment makes sense, since women "suffer disproportionately the profound consequences of sexual activity." Added Rehnquist: "A criminal sanction imposed solely on males thus serves to roughly 'equalize' the deterrents on the sexes." Moreover, he said, if females were liable too, few would report the incidents, thus further frustrating attempts at enforcement of a law aimed at reducing teen-age pregnancies...
...even stop at the Ivies--make it the entire East Coast. And considering the limited number of schools which actually sanction intramural tackle football, extend that to national champions...
...initiative, they argue, can the ascendance of the communists (reportedly gaining strength in the country's rural areas) be prevented. And yet, Marcos last week directed that the death penalty be dug up for the present CFIA fellow. Thus Aquino remains in a precarious position--unable to either sanction terrorist bombings or to return home and find an alternative consitituency. He takes Marcos' latest diatribes with a combined sense of equanimity and bewilderment, terming the president "paranoid," or, in more ingenuous moments, "crazy...
With so much research already going on, the Supreme Court's decision mainly gives formal sanction to what had been happening for some time, a classic example of the law's lagging behind technology. Millions of dollars have been invested without patent protection. Says Bernard Talbot, special assistant to the director of the National Institutes of Health: "Recombinant DNA work is going on in numerous labs. This would have gone on whatever the court decided." Chief Justice Burger himself acknowledged that a patent law "will not deter the scientific mind from probing into the unknown any more than...
Officials of Local 26, which represents Harvard's dining hall workers, did not prepare or sanction the leaflet, Powers' letter says...