Where the 'big boxes' belong; city planning commissions have devised various solutions to the problem of zoning big retailers
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So-called big box retailers pose a challenge to zoning and planning bodies that want to retain a downtown retail core while preventing shoppers from abandoning the city altogether. New York City may approve a plan simplifying the regulations that have discouraged such retailers from moving into vacant industrial properties. Stamford, CT, will encourage retailers under 65,000 feet to move into downtown spaces with off-site parking, while allowing a limited number of larger ones to use outlying industrial-zoned space.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1996
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London market starts up; the Alternative Investment Market is devised, like NASDAQ, to succeed through regulation
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London's new Alternative Investment Market is in many ways an attractive entry to the stockmarket for young, closely held, or growing companies. It imitates some elements of the US's enormously successful NASDAQ market, without seeking to duplicate it. AIM consolidates companies that listed on the earlier second-tier Rule 4.2 and Unlisted Securities markets, and raises few barriers to new entrants. However, it may have trouble competing with the London Stock Exchange, which has low capitalization requirements.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1995
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Harvard historian: blacks with low LSAT scores don't belong
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Stephan Thernstrom, one of the authors of 'America in Black and White,' a book advocating an end to affirmative action, also wrote an article in the Harvard University Law Review interpreting a study by the Law School Admission Council to mean that the higher failure rates of affirmative action students on the bar examination that such students lack the brains to become lawyers.
Publication Name: The National Law Journal
Subject: Law
ISSN: 0162-7325
Year: 1997
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