Word: coding
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Whoever joins the new economic team may very well be pushing next year for a complete overhaul of the tax code. Bush has not fully settled on the idea, but it makes political sense. It would show the Administration taking a big swipe at fixing the economy and would allow Bush to defend any new tax cuts by arguing that the reductions are just one part of making the system fairer...
...constellation of gods who require occasional ritual appeasement, as Cahill notes in The Gifts of the Jews, means that Abraham's relationship to God "became the matrix of his life," as it would be for millions who followed. A universal God made it easier to imagine a universal code of ethics. Positing a deity intimately involved in the fate of one's children overturned the prevalent image of time as an ever cycling wheel, effectively inventing the idea of a future. Says Eugene Fisher, director of Catholic-Jewish relations for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops: "Whether you call...
Doherty says that a number of students still had to submit paper applications this year due to computer problems, and a handful of first-years lacked the necessary PIN code to access the application...
...people by voiding an individual law in a specific case undermines the democratic nature of the American legal system. If the people perceive the law as arbitrarily determined by a 12-member panel lacking any accountability to the citizenry at large, popular confidence in a uniform legal code will disappear...
Constant modification of the legal code mirrors the changes in American life over time. The rise of the Internet has sparked a huge corpus of new law; the civil rights movement caused existing laws to be overturned and replaced with far different statutes. Inevitably, there are outdated laws on the books reflecting the popular will of a different time. The overcrowded justice system prevents many of these laws from being overturned, as more pressing cases take up the limited time of lawyers and judges alike. In practice, police and prosecutors rarely enforce outdated statutes dealing with small issues. Likewise, some...