The less harsh sentences came from the Manchester judge who announced, possibly in solidarity, that he too was exceeding the guideline.
It can, however, recommend which drugs should be used in a treatment guideline – and it is now preparing one on macular degeneration.
The figures also showed that the proportion of beaches reaching existing higher "guideline" standards of cleanliness fell slightly in 2014.
Basic guideline: in spring and summer, nearly everything you wear should be primarily cotton; in autumn and winter, it should be primarily wool.
All of it violated a raft of Defense Department and executive-branch regulations, up to and including Executive Order 12333, a foundational intelligence guideline.
Ted Boutrous, a lawyer representing Ford, believes the State Farm ruling requires that the award against Ford be cut to at most $5m, to match the compensatory damages awarded by the trial court.Yet, although pleasing to corporate lawyers, the Supreme Court's guideline may restrict the ability of punitive-damages courts to promote economic efficiency.
"The idea that a rule is better than a guideline because it is an enforceable rule and not a voluntary guideline is simplistic in the extreme", Ms Stymiest told a business gathering in September.
If such a guideline were merely advisory, the court said, it would not be unconstitutional: so the sentencing rules can stay on that basis.The result of this tangled ruling?
Everyone, including party members and the armed forces, "must regard the constitution as the fundamental guideline of their activities", the document says.
That minimum is now about 97% of America's poverty guideline, measured at purchasing-power parity, in a country with only about 67% of America's GDP per head.Asian values and welfareAt the same time, in much of Asia, newly assertive opposition parties showed that the distaste for welfare expressed by authoritarian leaders was not shared by the population at large.
Last year China's prime minister, Zhu Rongji, tried to restore normality by stressing that the central government's GDP growth target was intended as a guideline rather than an obligatory goal.
