And the Times is writing about this, closing the loop.Rather than rely on dictionaries, statute-writers should be as careful as possible to use words in the way that they are commonly understood (especially in quality edited writing).
I remember asking her, only half facetiously (I had by then, just one novel published), "Shouldn't there be a statute of limitations on snide comments about wonderful writers, some rule that says that after so many great novels, or after a Nobel Prize, no dissenting views are allowed?" "The idiots," Harriet said, "will always want the last word".
The result was the addition of vast tracts to the nation's land holdings and — through his strong ties with lawmakers, conservationists, writers and others — work that led to landmark statutes on air, water and land conservation.
Even if it did, Mr. Braverman said, the letter writer would not have recourse now, since the statute of limitations bars legal actions in such cases after six years.
Meanwhile French authorities took no action against Mr Strauss-Kahn for the writer's sex assault claims because of a statute of limitations.
Previously, publishers would have bought the original manuscript from writers for a lump sum; with the passage of the Statute, they simply did the same thing, but with the manuscript's copyright as well.
Finding out how large aggregates of educated writers of standard English use "X" will allow the statute-book writers to use X more precisely, so those affected understand X properly.
By Jane Mayer The New Yorker, May 11 , 1998P. 37 Talk story about Washington lawyer and former independent counsel Jacob Stein, who criticizes the independent-counsel statute... View Article Jane Mayer has been a New Yorker staff writer since 1995.
"For a writer with my temperament, there is no such thing as a statute of limitations".
"And since the published house rule, as described by the letter writer, grants a preference to couples with children, it appears to contravene this statute".
