Word: states
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...roster of antidrug strategies, some of the approaches he emphasized are likely to fuel further debate over whether constitutional guarantees will be a casualty of the war against drugs. A decade of stepped-up antidrug efforts has already left its mark on American law and life. Powerful state and federal forfeiture laws permit the confiscation before trial of virtually any kind of property remotely involved in or "intended for use" in drug transactions. Drug-sniffing dogs search hallways in Houston public schools. Public housing officials in some cities have evicted the families of suspected drug users. Already...
...occurred during the drive, and half a dozen injuries were reported. Another casualty, noted by few, was the historic fact that the legendary killer winter of 1886-87 wiped out the open-range cattle business in Montana. Great long-distance cattle drives were fading memories before Montana became a state...
...lending scheme that apparently took place on a branch manager's home computer in Georgia has grown into Italy's biggest banking scandal in years. Last week the disgrace claimed the two top officers of Italy's largest bank, the state-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro. Chairman Nerio Nesi, 64, and Director General Giacomo Pedde, 62, resigned after the bank's board heard the results of an initial probe into a scam in which the bank's Atlanta branch gave $2.6 billion worth of unauthorized export credits to Iraq to buy machinery and agricultural goods...
Harvard men's soccer Coach Mike Getman Knows it. That's why the 26-year-old Penn State alumnus is part of Getman' coaching staff. Kenney enters his second year as an assistant for the Harvard program...
...particular, the former head of the National League of Cities says he has a personal interest in reinforcing ties between the IOP and the new Taubman Center for state and local government...