Word: subject
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...should he be subject to Navajo law?" Trebon asked...
...members from selling vitamins and other health-related products to their patients. That move triggered a rash of protests--particularly among plastic surgeons and dermatologists, who have long sold facial creams to their patients. The A.M.A. agreed to reconsider the no-sales rule, and says it will revisit the subject later this year...
...funding for housing and hunger relief. But today that spirit is gone. In 1987 the number of articles on homelessness that appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times totaled 847; in 1996 those four dailies ran just 200 stories on the subject. As recently as 1991, 8% of Americans said homelessness--more than crime, the budget deficit, education or the decline of American values--was "the main problem facing the country today." Only half as many people now believe that. "Most of the emphasis today is on the feel-good," says Housing...
...this is not so troubling because the vast power that small states wield in the Senate is checked by the House of Representatives and the President's veto. But in an impeachment trial, the verdict of the senators is final, so a public, on-the-record vote would not subject the senators to national public opinion so much as it would implement the will of public opinion in the smaller states, unchecked by a more representative body...
...report also found that the vast majority of teachers claimed they could have benefited from better training programs, more professional development and a degree in the subject they taught. In this light, Clinton's minimum standard to ensure teacher quality is almost intuitive: Teachers must be state-certified, pass a performance exam and possess a relevant college degree...