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A waiting period is the period of time between when an action is requested or mandated and when it occurs. [1]In the United States, the term is commonly used in reference to gun control, abortion and marriage licences, as some U.S. states require a person to wait for a set number of days after buying or reserving a firearm from a dealer before actually taking possession of it, a woman waiting ...
People often must seek two trips to an abortion provider due to a waiting period between mandated counseling and the procedure. The waiting period is typically 24 hours before the scheduled abortion. There are organizations such as the Yellowhammer Fund which help people seeking an abortion by assisting with payments and providing logistical ...
Cooling-off period (consumer rights), a period of time during which the purchaser may cancel a purchase; Quiet period, the time which a company making an IPO must be silent about it, so as not to inflate the value of the stock artificially; Standstill period, the time to allow unsuccessful bidders to challenge the decision before a contract is ...
On February 4, 1987, two Ohio Democrats, Representative Edward F. Feighan and Senator Howard M. Metzenbaum, introduced the Brady Bill for the first time in the 100th Congress. [1] In its original form, the Bill mandated a seven-day waiting period between the time a person applied for a handgun and the time the sale could be completed. [1]
The National Child Search Assistance Act of 1990 (NCSA) [1] (42 U.S.C. 5779 (Reporting Requirement) and 42 U.S.C. 5780 (State Requirements): The NCSA requires local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to immediately enter information about abducted children into the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) database without requiring a waiting period.
While the title of Aesop's fable is almost always given as "The Two Pots", La Fontaine's Fables contrast their different constituents in a rather different fable based on it, Le pot de terre et le pot de fer (Fables V.2). [5] In this the iron pot proposes a journey together to the clay pot, which is only persuaded by the stronger pot's offer to ...
There was a push for a gin marriage law in Washington in 1939 heavily backed by the Washington State Federation of Women's Clubs.Vice president of the WSFWC Mrs. A. B. Swenssen said "we women feel many divorces are the result of hasty marriages, many of them made while young people are under the influence of liquour".
The EU Cosmetics Directive defines in Annex VIIIa the language-neutral open-jar symbol, which manufacturers should use to indicate this period. The time period is most often represented compactly as a number of months, followed by the letter "M", as in "36M" or "36 M" for a period of thirty-six months, written either onto the front side of the ...