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...guilty to second-degree murder, on the other," said Justice Byron White for the court majority, "Alford quite reasonably chose the latter and thereby limited the maximum penalty to a 30-year term." In a 6-3 vote, the court ruled that a guilty plea is voluntary and valid-at least when there is strong evidence of guilt-even though the defendant says that he is entering it only to escape execution. The result of the court's decision is a boost for the "plea bargaining" system that helps crowded courts thin their dockets by skipping trials...
...list of 18,680 student members, the Coop received 3459 valid votes which were tabulated at Harvard's Computing Center on the basis of proportional representation...
Seventy voted for sending a representative and 66 voted against. The number of valid votes for the second question was 125, of which Mendelssohn received 65, or 52 per cent, in a three-man race...
Asked if there had been women on the investigating staff which prepared the report, Albert said "We have two or three that were involved with it. I don't think that's a valid allegation anyway-that's like saying that all white liberals are liars when they try to work on black problems...
...Volkswagen's Wolfsburg plant, for instance, groups of workers put together large components. That allows for more human contact and freedom on the line, relieves the boredom and permits a worker to take several minutes off from time to time. Comparisons with Detroit's plants are not wholly valid because Volkswagens are much simpler than almost all American cars, but Wolfsburg produces autos at three or four times the rate of U.S. plants. In Detroit, the U.A.W. has suggested that teams of workers assemble whole cars, but the notion was dropped by the union when the auto companies concluded that...