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  • Barry Latzer, a criminal law expert at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said such shootings "are very tough cases, very gray-area cases."

    Are Hunting Accidents Crimes? 2009

  • I did not proceed with the candidate because I recognize that the law is our culture's minimum moral standard, not the maximum, and so as a CEO I had to make a gray-area judgment that I did not like.

    Penny Herscher: White-Collar Americans Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent Penny Herscher 2011

  • Because, among other reasons, these folks file returns that show high incomes, hefty personal deductions in relation to their incomes, and sizable gray-area write-offs for business, as well as losses on investments in questionable tax shelters or in sideline ventures that turn out to be "hobbies," defined by the IRS as activities pursued without expectations of profits.

    Julian Block: Filing-Time Fantasies Julian Block 2011

  • Some private data agencies inside and outside China also appear to have early access to official data and offer advance views to paying customers in what appears to be an unregulated gray-area practice.

    China Data Leaks Face Probe Tom Orlik 2011

  • I did not proceed with the candidate because I recognize that the law is our culture's minimum moral standard, not the maximum, and so as a CEO I had to make a gray-area judgment that I did not like.

    Penny Herscher: White-Collar Americans Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent Penny Herscher 2011

  • I did not proceed with the candidate because I recognize that the law is our culture's minimum moral standard, not the maximum, and so as a CEO I had to make a gray-area judgment that I did not like.

    Penny Herscher: White-Collar Americans Are Guilty Until Proven Innocent Penny Herscher 2011

  • Because, among other reasons, these folks file returns that show high incomes, hefty personal deductions in relation to their incomes, and sizable gray-area write-offs for business, as well as losses on investments in questionable tax shelters or in sideline ventures that turn out to be "hobbies," defined by the IRS as activities pursued without expectations of profits.

    Julian Block: Filing-Time Fantasies Julian Block 2011

  • Barry Latzer, a criminal law expert at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York, said such shootings "are very tough cases, very gray-area cases."

    Uncategorized Blog Posts 2009

  • But when consumers are insulated from the cost, this sort of premium, gray-area medicine is, in my view, the fundamental source of our problems in health care finance.

    Against Statistics, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

  • In other words, they're always paying attention to what's new in their environment, but are they really able to keep hold of those, especially those deeper, messy gray-area goals that you really do need to be challenged by.

    Distracted-- the Coming of a New Dark Age; Rob Kall Interviews author Maggie Jackson 2009

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