If indeed the act of writing offers ailing authors a hand up the social ladder and an alternative mode of perambulation when down for the count, Richard's religious calling made me wonder if perhaps his more agonizing pain called for a more potent laceration than the written word, a corked room, or a surgeon's knife could convey; namely, the need to be, as he puts it, "slain in the Spirit".
Our most comprehensive such legislation, the Privacy Act of 1974, offers limited protections to certain categories of federally held personal data.
The Department of Justice argued in a legal brief on Wednesday that the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964 offers no protection from discrimination based on sexual orientation, a position advocacy groups condemned as "shameful" and "politically driven".
The Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 offered farmers money to produce less cotton in order to raise prices.
The Homestead Act of 1862 offered a parcel of land to every settler who could secure a claim.
The Equal Pay Act of 1963 offered the first guarantee, and the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was amended to bar employers from discriminating on the basis of sex.
The American Jobs Creation Act of 2004 offered a temporary tax holiday that allowed firms to repatriate cash at about a 5 percent tax rate, but there were strings attached.
Perhaps it is about humanity's agonised sense — which gets worse as death approaches — that making sense of things is impossible, that language, art and the act of love offer a unity which is a mere transient confection.
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 offered some $14 billion in tax breaks for everything from clean coal technology to electric-car production.
In the US, the Family and Medical Leave Act of 19926 offered only job protection for 12 weeks, and this was found to have limited impacts on the length of leave (Baum 2003; Han and Waldfogel 2003; Waldfogel 1999; Klerman and Leibowitz 1999), and it did not affect post-pregnancy employment or wages (Klerman and Leibowitz 1999, Baum 2003 and Waldfogel 1999).
But does the Civil Rights Act of 1964 offer a clear answer regarding HB2?
