Word: act
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...proposal to endorse the easement has been on the council agenda for several weeks. The council is expected to act upon it soon...
...more serious offenses, it is not necessarily the place of universities to act as legal tribunals. Serious allegations such as rape deserve to be considered by courts with the expertise, impartiality, fairness and fact-finding ability that a university disciplinary body may lack. A defendant against such a serious claim deserves an unbiased hearing that is guaranteed to be fair, where both sides of the story will be heard and the rights of both parties will be respected...
...think the court...erred in determining that these non-human mammals could be considered a 'composition of matter' within the terms of the Patent Act," said Rick Woyiwada, the government laywer on the case. "Similarly, we think they erred in determining that the non-human mammals can be considered an invention...
...which, Dean of the College Harry R. Lewis '68 has noted, could substantially interfere with course work--should be reserved for more intransigent offenders. In developing this policy, Harvard should make sure students understand what punishments could follow from their actions; however, the University should feel no compulsion to act more forcefully against its students than the law requires...
...Will oil prices, which can act like a tax and dampen consumer spending, continue to do the Fed's soft-landing work for it? Or will they smother the boom? Will corporate earnings pick up? Will the euro ever recover? As the Fed chairman made clear with those ever-so-slightly-hawkish comments about energy prices, Uncle Alan may be on the sidelines - but he's watching. And he'll see us in December...