According to the World Justice Project Rule of Law Index 2017–2018, a striking worldwide decline in basic human rights has driven an overall decline in the rule of law since October 2016, the month before President Donald Trump’s election.

What makes ARP’s standards extraordinary are tough testing standards that measure something known as micro hardness. Some parts such as fasteners are too small to be Rockwell hardness tested. These parts are placed in hard plastic to begin the testing process. A microscope is used to place a small indenter into the steel. A microscope is used for close inspection and the length of the impression is measured.

"What you don’t understand is that I lived a certain life for 10 years and faced almost no real consequence at all. I had no version of the story that didn’t end up with me being fine," admitted Miller. "Yeah, I made a stupid mistake. I’m a human being. Like drove home drunk. But it was the best thing that could have happened. I needed that. I needed to run into that light pole and literally have the whole thing stop." 

The Loop system is distinguished from proposed, longer-range Hyperloop projects. in the latter system air is sucked from the tunnels, which (as the Boring Company envisions) enables pods to exceed 600 miles an hour.

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Then the ball dropped down, down, down toward that final impartial arbiter hanging 10 feet in the air, that hard, unsparing circle of iron. The shot looked good as it descended into the ring, but continued to sail just long and off the back rim from whence Bird had fired perfectly straight, but only an inch or so too far.

DJ then hit Bird with a nice pass inside as he cut through the lane off a Parish backscreen, but Johnson came over to help and as he banged knees with Bird, stripped him of the ball with a hard two-handed downswipe. Larry recovered the loose sphere on the floor, yet as he laid under the hoop looking to pass, he was called out of bounds for crossing the endline with his right shoulder.

In the months following Donald Trump’s inauguration, security analysts noted with increasing alarm what seemed to be a systematic erosion of the Department of Homeland Security’s analytic and operational capabilities with regard to countering violent extremism. It began with the appointment of a new national-security team. Like their counterparts now running immigration policy, the team came from the fringe of conservative politics, some of them with connections to Islamophobic think tanks and organizations like ACT for America or the Center for Security Policy, whose founder, Frank Gaffney, was Washington’s most prominent peddler of anti-Muslim conspiracy theories.

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In the Armory show, at the Wentrup Gallery booth, Nevin Aladağ’s “Social Fabric” of 2017 is typical of this Turkish artist’s interests in pastiche. She combines carpet pieces of Iraqi, African, Chinese, American, and other origins to crossbreed the patterns, highlighting the funky, sexy look of abandon and imprecision. Also, Sanford Biggers had a strong presence. Biggers’s patterns and textures sumptuously occupied the David Castillo Gallery booth with four quilt-based wall works, a wonderful decoratively patterned linoleum floor, and a feather-covered sculptural figure, as well as smaller pieces on the outer walls. Reached at the American Academy in Rome, where he is currently a Fellow, Biggers claims his connection to Kozloff, Schapiro, and P&D openly:

In turn, Worthy isolated on McHale, who forced him to miss a tough, spinning left-handed hook in the lane. But Thompson grabbed the rebound over Kite, who had inside position yet had gotten too low under the basket, and Mychal banked in a short stickback to answer right back. It was LA’s 14th offensive rebound of the game, compared to eight by Boston.