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Moreover , they found that the perceived personality of the car sometimes was a better predictor of aggressive driving tendencies than the owner 's personality.For example , people who thought of their car as friendly were more likely to behave better on the road , even if they were not particularly friendly people . Although the case centers on the lending practices of banks , legal experts said that it has broader implications for other industries that are also regulated on both the state and federal levels , in such areas as transportation safety , civil rights and environmental protection.At issue is whether state-chartered subsidiaries of national banks should be subject to the regulations of state governments or be solely under the purview of the federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.For 35 years , states have regulated the mortgage-lending practices of state-chartered subsidiaries of national banks . That 's key , because about 70 percent of teachers in kindergarten through 12th grade are women , a proportion that has not changed much in decades.At the same time , the proportion of smart women who entered other professions soared as doors to other , higher-paying professions slowly swung open . And you can blame growing opportunities for women in other , higher-paying professions - - and stingy government officials - - for the teacher brain drain , says economist Marigee P. Bacolod of the University of California at Irvine.Bacolod examined standardized-test scores , the selectivity of colleges that teachers attended and other measures of excellence . Elsewhere , punitive damages may be added - - subject to statutory limits in some states - - to deter and punish corporate misconduct.Businesses say that the patchwork of state laws , coupled with the unpredictable behavior of juries , has left them at the mercy of an expensive and arbitrary system . Meanwhile , the United States indicated that it believed that the North had sold enriched uranium to Libya when the latter had been attempting to develop nuclear weapons , while Korea publicly acknowledged that it had nuclear weapons and later stated that it would increase its nuclear arsenal . Nevertheless , in the midst of incessant wars there was a brisk development of manufacturing and trade , typified by the rise of Sakai ( later Osaka ) as a free city not subject to feudal control . An economically desperate North ended UN supervision of its nuclear facilities , withdrew from the nonproliferation treaty , and made other moves toward the development of nuclear weapons . After the North 's nuclear test in Oct ., 2006 , South Korea imposed some sanctions and supported the UN-adopted military sanctions , but remained committed to its policy of engagement with the North and the significant economic trade involved . Although the amounts of enriched plutonium and uranium were small , the admissions were embarrassing internationally and did not help the campaign against the North 's nuclear program . It overturned a $ 4 million punitive-damage award to an Alabama man who had sued a BMW dealer for selling him a repainted car instead of a new one.For the first time , the court declared that the constitutional right to due process of law meant that companies may not be subject to disproportionate punitive damages.In 2003 , the court broadly defined what qualifies as an excessive award , suggesting that punitive damages should normally be no more than nine times as large as compensatory damages . " She suggested that young boys may go into science while young girls stay away because of all the naughty bits in scientific books and research articles . Late in 2002 , however , oil shipments under the 1994 agreement were halted after revelations that North Korea had a nuclear weapons program ; food aid was also reduced .