More is on the way; two weeks ago Microsoft, Netscape and the Progressive Networks joined together to develop new prophylactic devices.
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In its major features ( of which the conclusiveness of judicial judgments is assuredly one ) it is a prophylactic device, establishing high walls and clear distinctions because low walls and vague distinctions will not be judicially defensible in the heat of interbranch conflict.
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:: : This book ( on p . 60 ) suggests that the tradition goes back to " the Middle Ages ", as an olfactory prophylactic device at times of plague . talk ) 20 : 52, 6 September 2010 ( UTC)
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At the same time, because the law before us both reopens final judgments and lacks the liberty-protecting assurances that prospectivity and greater generality would have provided, we need not, and we should not, go further to make of the reopening itself, an absolute, always determinative distinction, a " prophylactic device, " or a foundation for the building of a new " high wal ( l ) " between the branches.