"Is state action as effective as a federal regulator going after these companies?
After only five years, nobody was vulnerable to arbitrary state action as they had been, routinely, under apartheid.
America is heading in that direction, too.John Stuart Mill, the liberty-loving 19th-century philosopher, saw state action as justifiable to prevent deeds harmful to others.
In resisting the S.E.C. complaint, Ernst officials expressed concern that it might face state regulatory action as well.
The states' action comes as the manufacturers of heavy-duty diesel engines are jointly asking the Clinton administration to modify a previous agreement to clean up their engines.
Individuals could pass from one millet to another if they wished to convert, but, because all the millets were extremely antagonistic toward those who left them to convert to another religion, the state discouraged such action as much as possible to preserve social harmony and tranquility.
And states have been taking action as well, with California and New York enacting legislation to support pay transparency efforts.
The 'emptying out' of many public facilities and services (for example, in clinics that lacked medicines or doctors) diminished populations' as well as civil servants' expectations of the potential of state action for social transformation, as well as for social control (Masquelier 2001).
India's tourism ministry urged the state police to take action as soon as possible, and the police took the unusual step of setting up roadblocks and ordering truckers to report to the local station in what they called a "combing operation".
The model discussed thus far, allowed us to analytically compute the reward associated with each state and action pair, as well as the expected discounted reward for a given policy.
The private market and state action are not as neatly divisible as libertarians assert, and this is no less true in the race context, where state action and private attitudes and market behavior are deeply intertwined.
