Posted by: pgrzelak
More bad news - 27/06/2005 19:14
I was even more annoyed by this one personally.
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I was even more annoyed by this one personally.
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Decades of economic decline led a state agency in 1990 to designate the City a distressed municipality. In 1996, the Federal Government closed the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, which had been located in the Fort Trumbull area of the City and had employed over 1,500 people. In 1998, the City s unemployment rate was nearly double that of the State, and its population of just under 24,000 residents was at its lowest since 1920.
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The takings before us, however, would be executed pursuant to a carefully considered development plan.
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in a case upholding a mining company's use of an aerial bucket line to transport ore over property it did not own, Justice Holmes opinion for the Court stressed the inadequacy of use by the general public as a universal test. Strickley v. Highland Boy Gold Mining Co., 200 U. S. 527, 531 (1906). We have repeatedly and consistently rejected that narrow test ever since.
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I'm particularly surprised by the list of judges who ruled in favor of it... Sup wit dat?
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don't really benefit anyone except the shareholders of the company
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Instead of a Gideon's Bible each guest will receive a free copy of Ayn Rand's novel "Atlas Shrugged."
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I'm outraged by this and I hope more people are too.
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Maybe now there will be some publicity for this story.
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refusing to shop there
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(the arguement is based on the assumption that the government does many bloated worthless things with your money, while corporations provide usefull and necessary things. i haven't read enough to understand the full scope of service provided by the government, so i'm not 100% convinced of the arguement yet.)
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the government sponsored vivisection of my current employer)