Word: takethings
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...jury giveth and the judge taketh away. That oft-repeated scenario is what many legal and business analysts believe will happen to last week?s record-busting $4.9 billion jury verdict awarded against General Motors in Los Angeles. After a 10-week trial, a 12-member panel ordered the company to pay the sum ? $107 million in compensatory damages and $4.8 billion in punitive damages ? to six people who were severely burned when the fuel tank in their Chevrolet Malibu exploded during a rear-end collision. The plaintiffs claimed the car should have been designed with a fuel tank further...
What the zebras giveth, the zebras also taketh away...
...Higher Education Act giveth, but it also taketh away. This page is deeply concerned about one provision of the bill, which makes it possible for universities to inform a student's parents if the student breaks state or federal laws or school policies on drug abuse. Such a provision seems to set a dangerous precedent for excessive intrusions into students' lives. A student trusted to go thousands of dollars in debt to finance an education must also be trusted to negotiate with his or her parents on non-fiscal matters...
...Juducial Branch -- seems to be doing most of the talking. Well, Ken, it was the Supreme Court who brought you Monica, and Judge Johnson who let you get all the way up the ladder with Bruce Lindsey and the Secret Service. But SCOTUS giveth, and SCOTUS taketh away. As one lucky criminal (not a President) says with heavy irony in The Star Chamber (1983), "God bless f---ing America...
However, the Panthers showed that if the power play giveth, the power play also taketh away. Middlebury evened the contest on a power play goal early in the second period...