Word: unless
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...Unless this empowerment--to control not only the nicotine content of cigarettes, already approved by a federal court, but their tar, carbon monoxide, carcinogenic flavorings and other additives as well--is a basic part of the deal and not conditioned on the FDA's having to meet evidentiary standards of the industry's devising, the whole settlement package is a toothless wonder and should be tabled. Even granted essential regulatory muscle, the FDA needs both the resolve to carry forward its regimen and the funding to do it properly; perhaps revenues from a higher federal cigarette tax should be earmarked...
...have to listen to the government." Zhang reduced the work force to 6,400, then farmed out an additional 1,000 workers to small related industries like repair shops. He started a plastics plant to absorb 2,000 more. "Here it is illegal to lay off workers," he says, "unless I can find them other jobs...
Zhao Yanhui, 44, has learned to love elections. "Unless the people approve of you," she says, "you can't get them to do anything. Now we know elections are the best way to get good things done." But such political progress hasn't paid off financially in Yangzhuang, a village of 1,200 not far from Li Dongju's peach orchards. Her neighbors say Zhao would "naturally" win any vote, but her current ambitions are all economic. Yangzhuang has no rich orchards, no 10,000-yuan households and little arable land. Hardscrabble farming is still the daily lot as fathers...
...acts committed by unmarried persons of different sexes are not yet a crime, unless the seduction was accomplished through the use of witchcraft or "black magic," in which case the female party will be burned at the stake, as regulations require. Sex acts between people of the same sex are, of course, anatomically impossible...
MOSCOW: The recent "Buy Russian" campaign for Kremlin bureaucrats was extended to religion today when the Russian Duma voted to bar any religions from operating in the country unless they have been established there for more than 15 years. Denounced by human rights activists as trampling on Russian constitutional guarantees of freedom of religion, the bill is a boon for other traditional faiths such as Islam and Buddhism. But it's theRussian Orthodox Church that was the driving force behind the move. The church has increasingly seen its hold over Russian souls wrested away by foreign upstarts from Hare Krishnas...