31.   Clay County prosecutors said that they used the law two or three times a month and that it usually resulted in guilty pleas and sentences of probation.

32.   Civil libertarians worry that such a law could be used to force medication or commitment on someone with borderline mental problems.

33.   Commanders will also use existing laws on harassment, assault, menacing, disorderly conduct and damage to property in an effort to arrest aggressive panhandlers.

34.   Cooley said California has the toughest anti-terrorism laws in the nation and those laws can be used to protect residents from nuclear, chemical and biological terrorist attacks.

35.   Crew said the law had been used by officers to intimidate people from proceeding with their complaints, creating a chilling effect.

36.   Commitment laws are being used particularly aggressively in New Jersey, where Megan Kanka was killed.

37.   Commonly referred to as RICO, the law has been used extensively to fight white-collar crime and corruption.

38.   Critics say that churches could use the law to challenge zoning ordinances that might require more land for parking or buffers to protect neighborhoods.

39.   Cope also studied works of Iannis Xenakis, who used laws of probability, game theory, and other mathematical formulas to generate eerie electronic scores.

40.   Critics said the law was used to persecute those foreigners critical of US foreign policy, including the war in Vietnam.