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25 Oct 2010, 4:45 am
This doesn’t mean the shareholders have to subsidize anything corporate managers want to say, but it does mean that the Court will want more than just a shareholder-protection fig leaf to justify a massive increase in the burdens of corporate speech. [read post]
11 Sep 2012, 12:38 am
In the third century BC, Greek philosopher Chrysippus died of out-of-control laughter after he gave his donkey some wine, and then observed it pigging out on figs… Pietro Aretino (below), writer, raconteur, and the founder of “literary pornography,” is said to have died in 1556 of suffocation from laughing too much… Read more at http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/news-dying-laughter#18pFecv3pQjZmTkU.99 More recently… On March 24th of 1975, Alex Mitchell, a… [read post]
12 Jul 2019, 12:25 am
”) But plaintiffs’ attorneys in such abusive actions – often labor union counsel – have usually sought to retain a “fig leaf” conferring a patina of legitimacy by requesting some ostensibly environmental beneficial project features (albeit usually trivial ones) be included as part of the settlement, if for no other reason than to protect themselves from federal or other lawsuits similar to the one brought here by Relevant. [read post]
16 Feb 2012, 3:23 pm
Some groups find the compromise inadequate, characterizing it as a fig-leaf or subterfuge. [read post]
5 Jul 2018, 8:28 am
John Price was spirited to Canada by another anti-slavery activist, John Anthony Copeland, where he was reported by Langston’s brother, John Mercer Langston, to repose “under his own vine and fig tree, with no one to make him afraid. [read post]
29 Nov 2011, 8:05 am
In our Berkeley study, we presented the model below for the development, consumption and regulation of drug products, referring to it as a regulated Therapeutic Product Lifecycle (rTPL).Fig. 1. rTPL Innovation Ecology Model for Drug Development.Innovation is represented as an iterative process over time involving several functional groupings, including national science and technology (S&T) policy, clinical research, university and firm commercialization, innovation by private firms,… [read post]
12 Oct 2016, 11:41 am
Given what we know about the forgetting effect, you can see that even with the cramming that occurs before exams (Fig. 2), the memory does not return to optimal levels. [read post]
16 May 2011, 3:01 pm
When starting with the embodiment shown in figure 6 and assessing the requirement of inventive step in the light of the further embodiment of figure 7 of D2, the technical difference leading from the design disclosed in figure 6 of D2 to that in figure 7 of D2 is that “the function of the connecting parts in FIG. 6 is incorporated into the pattern of conductive segments CS’, reducing the outside dimensions of the device and the amount of resistive material required”… [read post]
10 May 2022, 9:00 pm
”Murkowski, too, has reason to prove that her support for women’s reproductive freedom is more than a fig leaf. [read post]
17 Jul 2012, 9:18 am
Their override of the governor’s veto of that fig leaf effectively repeals the Racial Justice Act. [read post]
24 Feb 2019, 4:15 am
It can be gathered from Fig. 1 that, for a product which meets the ’market standard’ of 7.5, the use of Teff flour with a falling number of at least 400 is required. [read post]
17 Jun 2018, 10:36 pm
Affiliated, subsidiary, sister and related companies of Farmers include domestics state companies with the Farmers in their name,(Example: Farmers Insurance Company of Arizona), Truck Insurance Exchange, FFS, FIG, Fire Underwriters Association, Foremost Insurance Company, Mid Century Insurance Company, Prematic Service Corporation, Truck Underwriters Association, Civic Property and Casualty, Exact Property and Casualty, Bristol West Insurance, Neighborhood Spirit, Zurich North American,… [read post]
15 Apr 2011, 12:54 pm
According to their research, the following plants are among the most effective in counteracting chemicals in the air and improving balanced internal humidity: Areca palm, Lady palm, Boston fern, Bamboo palm, Rubber plant, English ivy, Peace lily, Dwarf date palm, Weeping fig, Ficus alii, Dracaena, Chinese evergreen. [read post]
24 Oct 2016, 4:07 pm
He has demonstrated unequivocally that IPSO’s interests are indistinguishable from those of the industry and that – just like the PCC and its procession of industry-hugging chairmen – any protestations and cosmetic rule changes to the contrary are nothing but fig-leaves of independence. [read post]
30 Nov 2009, 7:22 am
But targeting or earmarking can make an important political economy difference.If politics in Congress were less poisonously dysfunctional, and the war lobby in Washington less dedicated to endless military adventures abroad, the virtue of this proposal (at least, with more delayed implementation) would be its providing a fig leaf for moving tax policy in the needed direction, by suggesting that it's for the patriotic cause of supporting the troops. [read post]
7 Oct 2011, 7:00 am
/line 1/15, Fig. 1, 4/55, 5/8, 5/16, 14/53. [read post]
3 May 2010, 10:17 am
Agent 11 said she used an "incentive-based" interrogation technique with Khadr, in which she rewarded him with M&Ms, Fig Newtons, and game books in exchange for cooperation. [read post]
21 Nov 2021, 6:00 pm
While none of the commentators questioned, no less refuted, our core finding that the Federal Circuit has flipped the ornamentality/non-functionality doctrine, several offered fig leaves to clothe the Federal Circuit’s lax standards for design patent eligibility and infringement. [read post]
15 Jun 2011, 6:46 am
We're therefore pleased to draw the attention of our readers to Tufty's recent post on "Rigcool v Optima Solutions - some confusion over dates", which has nothing at all to do with the fruit this Kat confuses with figs -- but a lot to do with periods of time. [read post]
13 Apr 2023, 1:27 pm
In 2022, supply chain related issues led to securities suits against Tupperware (here), Torrid Holdings (here), FIGS, Inc. [read post]
