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In the South such consumer goods industries as textiles , garments , and footwear have given way to heavy industry , consumer electronics , and information industries . Southern racists , worried that new judges might rule against them , wanted an opportunity to ferret out potential opponents.Wittes argues that a return to the pre - Brown process , which would mean " either eliminating - - or at least limiting - - live testimony of nominees at their hearings , " would " remove the central event " from what is now " an embarrassing spectacle that yields minimal information " about the nominees . " The authority is set to expire on July 1 , and I ask Congress to renew it . Skilling , who told jurors that he was " absolutely innocent , " is attacking the four-year investigation against him as a " witch hunt " and claiming that prosecutors used unfair tactics and relied on shaky jury instructions to bring down a man who once dashed from presidential inaugurations to conference calls with Wall Street analysts . They totaled the number of violations for each country , obtained the number of diplomats officially assigned to that mission and computed a ticket-per-envoy average.Finally , they compared their list of scofflaws with a widely used composite index that ranks countries on the basis of how corrupt they are.The correlation was n't perfect . The bank won on the lower court levels , and Michigan appealed to the Supreme Court.Critics of the OCC have long said the federal agency falls short in consumer protection and that it bases its regulatory decisions on maintaining the banks ' safety and soundness.In oral arguments , E. John Blanchard , who represented Michigan and whose case is supported by the 49 other states , argued that " preemption " of local authority by the OCC would prevent states from protecting their residents . " ) , released in 2001 over the Internet , became the first Arabic rap hit and spawned a new kind of rap that is spreading quickly throughout the Middle East , communications lecturer Usama Kahf of California State University at Long Beach says in an article under review by the Journal of Popular Music Studies.A dozen rappers - - mostly Palestinians - - fill the Arab streets with rap and hip-hop beats , according to Kahf 's review of the nascent genre . " Two Canadian researchers compared overly aggressive play by National Hockey League players born in the United States and Canada with the play of NHL players born in Europe.They found that players born in North America were far more likely to be penalized for fighting , unnecessary roughness and unsportsmanlike conduct than players born in Europe .