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Women who did not speak English, women who reported a history of breast cancer or augmentation surgery, and women with suspicious lesions on the mammograms were excluded from the study, but women taking oral contraceptives and hormone replacement therapy were eligible to participate.
The SEC believes that the benefits of the rule outweigh the costs attributed to it since it will significantly ease the regulatory burden by eliminating the trading restrictions for underwriters of actively-traded securities, reducing the restricted periods for other securities, provide a more flexible framework for stabilizing transactions, expanding the securities eligible for Nasdaq passive market making during an offering and deregulating rights offerings.
Funding recipients may "represen[t] an individual eligible client who is seeking specific relief from a welfare agency if such relief does not involve an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law in effect on the date of the initiation of the representation."
In FY 1996, 915,900 people received an immigrant visa (a "green card"--it's actually pink), which makes them eligible for permanent residence and most of the benefits of citizenship, with the important exception of the right to vote.
This document established twin goals to be attained by the national legal services community by 2004: to dramatically increase the provision of legal services to eligible persons; and to ensure that eligible clients are receiving appropriate and high-quality legal assistance.