The preamble to the Class Action Fairness Act stated that some abusive class actions harmed class members with legitimate claims and defendants that have acted responsibly ; adversely affected interstate commerce ; and undermined public respect for the country's judicial system.

The Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps, a DCI World Class drum corps, uses the chevron as its emblem ; many past and present members sport chevron tattoos.

Pacheco, a product of CWU Rugby ( Class of ' 03 ), selected two CWU Rugby players, Tim Stanfill and Patrick Blair, as Collegiate All-Americans, joining Scott Anderson ( Class of ' 99 ) in obtaining All American status as members of CWU Rugby.

Class war or class warfare refers to a class conflict, or tensions between members of different social classes.

There are Class A and Class B members of Bella Vista Village.

Both Class A and class B members must approve a vote before it is binding.

The Town of Root is a town of the Second Class under New York State law, with a Town Board of four members plus a Town Supervisor, who is a voting member of the Board.

In 1953 a new Class D league, known as the Tar Heel League, was formed and the Mooresville Moors were members for its one season of existence.

The local volunteer fire department, at Station 1, has 100 members and support staff and an ISO Class 4 rating.

According to the Saddle Creek press release, it features members of Lullaby for the Working Class, Neutral Milk Hotel, and of Montreal.

As with other members of the former Japanese government, Kishi was held at Sugamo Prison as a " Class A " war crimes suspect by the order of the Supreme Commander of the Allied Powers.

1984 was the year that Uncle Jamm's Army released their first single Dial-a-Freak and the year Egyptian Lover released his On the Nile album which includes the most listened 12 ' single Egypt Egypt. City of Compton former locking dancer Alonzo Williams formed his own electro-hop group World Class Wreckin ' Cru which included future N. W. A members Dr. Dre and DJ Yella.

Scott Adams did publish in issue 15 of his Dilbert Newsletter ( sent to all members of Dogbert's New Ruling Class ) an excerpt from this book with permission for it to be re-published ( if kept with the copyright text ).

In 2007, 24 members of the Class of 2007 received a Fulbright Scholarships along with four other alumni,

By 1996, with membership falling, Class War members from Bristol and Leeds launched a " review process " to examine the direction the Federation should now take.

His most common targets were the affected manners of Victorian society, the bourgeoisie and members of Britain's growing Middle Class in particular.

Later, remaining World Class members, Shakespeare pursued a position as a pastor.

A photo taken of Layne backstage at this show is the most recent photo of Layne that has been publicly released .< ref >< http :// grungereport. net /? p = 11227 ></ ref > Thereafter, Staley was thought to have left behind his " self-imposed rock & roll exile " when in November 1998 he laid down additional vocal tracks as part of a supergroup called Class of ' 99, featuring members of Rage Against the Machine, Jane's Addiction, and Porno for Pyros.

Sportsman Class Racers must be dues-paying members of NHRA before they are allowed to enter and participate in any NHRA event.

The extremely halophilic, aerobic members of Archaea are classified within the family Halobacteriaceae, order Halobacteriales in Class III.

To alleviate this, airports created Premium lines for passengers traveling in First or Business Class, or those who were elite members of a particular airline's Frequent Flyer program.

The training exercise in Star Trek II describes the Kobayashi Maru as a Class III neutronic fuel carrier-ship commanded by Kojiro Vance with 81 crew members and 300 passengers.

# Class I devices present minimal potential for harm to the user and are often simpler in design than Class II or Class III devices.

Class action lawsuits are another example of judicial economy in action, as they are often tried as a single case, yet involve many cases with similar facts.

Class 1 World Powerboat Championship is often referred to as the equivalent of Formula 1 motor racing as it is the pinnacle of offshore powerboat racing.

Class III slot machines are most often seen in Nevada or Atlantic City and are sometimes referred to as " Vegas-style slots.

Despite holding a master's degree in an era when American conscripts often lacked a high school diploma, Lehrer served as an enlisted soldier, achieving the rank of Specialist Third Class ( later retitled " Specialist-4 " and currently " Specialist "), which he described as being a " corporal without portfolio ".

Class sizes start at around twenty to twenty-five in the first year and are often below ten by the final year.

* Class 1 is walking on an even, often planar, surface with a low chance of injury, and a fall is unlikely to be fatal.

" At a time when often a third of the class washed out before graduation, Pickett persisted, working off his demerits and doing enough in his studies to graduate, ranking last out of the 59 surviving students in the Class of 1846.

** A nickname for Virgin Trains ' British Rail Class 57, often used as such due to the aforementioned 60s television programme

* 6400 Class: A locomotive used for both shunting and pulling trains, often in combinations of two or three locomotives.

Class passing also figures into reality television programs such as Joe Millionaire: contestants are often immersed in displays of great material wealth, or may have to conceal their class status.

WASP families are often stereotyped as pursuing traditional British diversions such as golf, equestrianism, polo, and yachting — expensive pursuits that need both leisure time and affluence to pursue, and which sociologists such as Thorstein Veblen ( The Theory of the Leisure Class ) have pointed to as a marker of social standing.

As such, the justification of purchasing First Class on regional services, often for the average traveller, is more so dictated as offering a " better-odds " gamble of finding vacant seating availability on certain trains ( esp.

Class tension is often apparent between Columbo – with his seemingly humble, working class origins – and the killer, who is usually affluent, well-positioned and condescending.

Furthermore, Class A is further subdivided into Class A and Class A-Advanced ( often called Low-A and High-A, respectively ).

The Business Class car is normally supplied with a daily newspaper, often The New York Times, at its origin station.

Truck trailers were first carried by railway before World War II, an arrangement often called " piggyback ", by the small Class I railroad, the Chicago Great Western in 1936.

FS Class E656, an articulated Bo '- Bo '- Bo ' locomotive, manages more easily the tight curves often found on the Italian railways

* ASH 26 ( 18 metre Class, often motorised )

The Class of 2014 had a 40 % acceptance rate, and often competes with comparable schools Dickinson and Franklin & Marshall for applicants.