Word: unless
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...Unless a reluctant Massachusetts state legislature takes action, Neville is likely to end up with far less than $103,253, O'Brien could be driven from his home, and the city of Boston -O'Brien's employer-could get off with a negligible payment. The reason: Massachusetts is one of twelve states still clinging to an antique doctrine of sovereign immunity, which forbids lawsuits against the government without its consent. The doctrine goes back to a medieval notion that "the king can do no wrong," and was pronounced in the U.S. as a "general proposition" by Chief...
...dozens of other cities, mass busing may never come. The Supreme Court has backed away from the concept of cross-district busing ever since 1974, when it ruled that Detroit need not bus suburban students into downtown schools unless it could be proved that both city and suburban officials willfully sought to segregate their schools. Several alternatives to mass busing have also appeared and received the blessing of Congress, which has acted strongly over the past few years to curtail the Department of Health, Education and Welfare's power to order busing. Among the options: so-called magnet...
These days, Freddie is at pains to dispute the stories of his driven nature. "You really have to start separating the man from the myth," he says. Far from watching the set every waking hour, he says, "I look at very little TV at home, unless I have to or unless a cassette comes in and it is an emergency." Yes, he admits, there is a three-TV unit in his new apartment overlooking Central Park, but it has not even been hooked up yet. Really, he says, his family?Cathy, to whom he has been married for six years...
...bank to buy its stock, why should he be allowed to borrow from a correspondent bank for the same purpose? It is clearly time for a new law that would shift the burden of proof, and forbid big banks to make personal loans to officers of cor respondent banks unless both parties can prove that the transaction is an "arm's length" deal...
Since Blue Cross annually pays hospitals $13 billion for services rendered to its members, the threat to withhold payments unless the agreed-upon cost standards and procedures are met could be powerful. But whether the ambitious plan will work depends a good deal on whether or not the particular insurance company, using its own teams as well as already existing medical monitoring systems, can actually wrestle the medica. bureaucracy into line, set cost standards and avoid budget padding...