He actually signed a bill into law that grants limited legal status to the outlaw industry of hemp production.
► In a Wednesday ScienceInsider, Kaiser reported that the National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences NIGMSS) "is imposing a strict one-grant limit on scientists who already have plentiful no-strings support".
In the latest example of budget stretching at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the agency's basic science institute is imposing a strict one-grant limit on scientists who already have plentiful no-strings support.
Risking significant power, Mr. Fox urged Congress to support the changes, which grant limited autonomy to Indian communities.
With J. Elizabeth Jones and Hannah Tracy Cutler, Gage successfully lobbied for an 1861 Ohio law that granted limited property rights to married women.
Shriver sneers at the idea of asking permission to write a character from another race and culture, wondering whether writers should approach "passers by with a clipboard, getting signatures that grant limited rights".
Such apparently unrelated questions arise in the aftermath of the vote of the environment committee of the Spanish Parliament last month to grant limited rights to our closest biological relatives, the great apes — chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas and orangutans.
Do we set up a stand on the corner and approach passers-by with a clipboard, getting signatures that grant limited rights to employ an Indonesian character in Chapter Twelve, the way political volunteers get a candidate on the ballot?
Graham was granted limited immunity and spoke for about three hours with Jeff Novitzky, a special agent for the Internal Revenue Service and a lead investigator in the Balco case, the person involved in the investigation said.
He cautioned against the speed even of King Abdullah's tentative reform programme, which has included such "modernising" policies as extending education and granting limited new rights for women.
