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...telephone companies and 20 long-distance carriers, including AT&T, US Sprint and MCI, joined forces to form a group called the Communications Fraud Control Association, which now includes a number of other phone companies. The association's mission: to help crack down on the growing practice by urging tougher laws and stricter law enforcement...
...This kind of legislation is good because it really affects the bottom line for businesses--dollars and cents," Vilakazi said. "We support sanctions and anything that makes it tougher for companies to do business as usual," he said...
...reference to pressures in Congress for tougher measures against Japan, which had a $58.6 billion surplus in U.S. trade last year, Reagan said, "We recognize the domestic pressures that play a part in the decision-making processes of our respective countries...
...first-time offender who has committed a nonviolent crime. They also abolish the parole system for federal prisoners, as Congress has mandated, so that a five-year term will mean just that, minus no more than 54 days a year for good behavior. The commission estimates its tougher penalties will cause the federal prison population to grow by an extra 10% over the next decade. That could have an unimaginable effect on a federal prison like the one at Terminal Island in California, which has 1,039 inmates caged in a facility designed to hold 601. "We couldn...
...Some claimed to be serious literary or art journals, including a scholarly legal review that carried articles like "Why the Breast of a Woman Was Tattooed." While some Chinese writers agree that the more vulgar periodicals should be weeded out, they are concerned that the crackdown may herald tougher censorship...