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This sort of ruling "absolutely increases abused women's level of risk" by seemingly encouraging their abusers, Ms.
Italy's competition authority has concluded that Coke abused its dominant market position by preventing retailers from selling Pepsi.
In his "findings of fact," Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson ruled that the company is a monopoly, has abused its monopoly power, and has harmed consumers.
Would I help her get the story out through Isikoff and Newsweek ? Long a defender of the women I knew Clinton had abused, most particularly Gennifer Flowers, I jumped at the chance to be involved.
In fact, I even feel like a wimp for having to try to curry sympathy for death-row prisoners by pointing out the procedural irregularities in their cases; I oppose executing them even when they are monsters in human form, because, while I can easily understand why someone would want to kill the murderer of their near and dear, I can't at all understand why someone would want to give the state the power to kill them--even if it's not being abused in that exact case, it's going to be, and probably sooner rather than later, as the much-publicized racial statistics of the death penalty's application demonstrate.