Balance Sheet. (Citings).Miami Heat A federal judge says Elian Gonzalez's supporters can sue former Attorney General Janet Reno for injuries received during the April 2000 INS INS abbr. 1. Immigration and Naturalization Service 2. International News Service Noun 1. INS raid to seize the boy: "A reasonable officer...would know that the law forbade her from directing the execution of a warrant in a manner that called for unjustified force." Free Birds The California Board of Equalization In communications, techniques used to reduce distortion and compensate for signal loss (attenuation) over long distances. rules 5-0 that the Los Angeles County assessor Los Angeles County Assessor is the office which deals with the tax-side to property in the county. The current assessor is Rick Auerbach. Prior to Auerbach taking office in 2000, Kenneth P. Hahn was assessor. Past City Assessors Name Term A. F. cannot tax orbiting satellites. The county wanted Hughes Electronics to pay taxes on eight birds, 22,300 miles up. Last year a judge ordered Virginia Beach, Virginia Virginia Beach is an independent city located in the South Hampton Roads area in the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. It is the most populous city in Virginia and the 41st largest city in the United States, with an estimated , to return $360,000 it had collected from the Fox Network for its satellite transponders. Labor Pains labor pains pl.n. Rhythmical uterine contractions that, under normal conditions, increase in intensity, frequency, and duration, and culminate in vaginal delivery of the infant. Eugene Scalia, nominee to be the Labor Department's top lawyer, defends his opposition to wacky Clinton-era workplace safety regulations. Scalia's dismissal of ergonomic regs as based on "quackery Quackery barber-surgeon inferior doctor; formerly a barber performing dentistry and surgery. [Medicine: Misc.] Dulcamara, Dr. " and "junk science" drives Big Labor--loving pols insane. Union Label Dutch hookers--a.k.a. "workers in the sex industry"--form the world's first trade union for prostitutes. Last year Holland legalized brothels BROTHELS, crim. law. Bawdy-houses, the common habitations of prostitutes; such places have always been deemed common nuisances in the United States, and the keepers of them may be fined and imprisoned. 2. , and now pros say they need to organize to win better treatment from banks and insurance companies. Smoked Eats Restaurant owners in Ames, Iowa, sue the city over an anti-smoking ordinance. Owners of Cyclone Truck Stop and six other eateries say state law allows smoking in public places. Restaurants in Marquette, Michigan, won a similar case in March. Face Off The sudden popularity of face-recognition technology ignores that using it to scan big crowds for terrorists cannot possibly work. False acceptance and detection rates combine to mean that one in three people would have to be stopped to catch 90 percent of the bad guys. Flag Daze Indiana is one of 48 states that still outlaws burning the American flag, despite Supreme Court rulings that the act is protected speech. One Hoosier was arrested for burning a flag behind his home. Power Drunk In Florida, drunk driving is whatever the cops say it is, a federal judge rules. District Court Judge Richard Lazzara says 0.01 percent on a breath-alcohol test--well below the state's 0.08 DUI level--can take a backseat to officers' "personal observations of plaintiff's physical appearance and his performance on the field sobriety tests, as well as plaintiff's admission to having consumed alcohol." Papers Please An airline industry group is among the backers of a smart I.D. card for all Americans. Such a "transportation card" would be needed to fly a plane, board a train, or rent a car. Railroad Tithe tithe Contribution of a tenth of one's income for religious purposes. The practice of tithing was established in the Hebrew scriptures and was adopted by the Western Christian church. Amtrak Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corp., authorized to operate virtually all intercity passenger railroad routes in the United States. Amtrak was created by Congress in 1970 in response to more than two decades of continuous operating deficits by privately run says $3 billion more for security and service improvements will make rail travel a real alternative to the nation's weary flyways. But the trains shouldn't need federal help if nobody wants to fly: They might finally have passengers. Amtrak has until 2003 to end 30 years of reliance on government subsidies or be dissolved. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion