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For all the trading programs and consistent with the existing Section 411, the excess emissions penalty does not preclude imposition, in addition, of civil penalties for violations.
Cocaine use is illegal, but as governor of Texas, he's toughened penalties for people convicted of selling or possessing less than a gram of coke (a crime previously punished by probation).
Legal penalties vary according to the context in which the word is used, the gender (in the case of nouns), and the tense and mood (in the case of verbs).
The CDA, as most people reading this probably know, attempts to regulate content through criminal penalties for those who violate standards of decency (standards drawn so broadly that they might prohibit, for instance, David Sedaris' "Diary" from last week) with "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs."
14 The lean retailing policies described previously attempt to reduce both average lead times and lead-time variability through the imposition, for example, of penalties for late deliveries.