Word: final
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...final element to providing secure health care to Americans is affordability. One way to keep down health care's burgeoning costs is to open up the prescription drugs market to foreign competition. A pending congressional measure would accomplish this, and if passed, should be signed by either President Clinton or his successor...
...neglected to tell previous buyers about the danger the machines posed. Under this bill, Gonzalez would have been unable to sue for non-economic injuries. Had the machine injured a visitor to the plant as well, the visitor would have been able to sue, but not Gonzalez. As a final injustice, even though Gonzalez would be shut out of the courts, his employer would still be able to sue to recover the profits he lost over the episode. Most remarkable of all, the bill would have preempted state laws adopted to protect citizens, letting the federal government interfere--often unconstitutionally...
...Official results released so far show the opposition candidate Kostunica leading Milosevic by 48 percent to 40 percent. These are not the final results, but if the pattern holds this means Milosevic is offering a runoff election, since according to his results neither man got the necessary 50 percent. Tonight's decision means Milosevic has made a vitally important psychological step. He's admitted he's not the most popular politician in Serbia, and that he's losing the election. And most importantly, he seems to be opting for a political solution rather than violence and confrontation. That's taken...
...little more time.' But from what the opposition has said so far, they won't accept it. They're planning a massive rally for Wednesday, to claim their first-round victory. And if they remain united and firm, Milosevic could still instruct his electoral officials to produce a final result that reflects Kostunica's first-round victory...
...case significantly effects [sic] an important sector of the economy - a sector characterized by rapid technological change," Justice Stephen Breyer wrote in his lone dissent (an unusually brief two-paragraph job). "Speed and reaching a final decision may help create legal certainty. That certainty in turn may further the economic development of that sector so important to our nation's prosperity...