We meet Vanderbilts, Rockefellers and Morgans boozing it up beyond the three-mile limit during Prohibition.
The conviction of a trawlerman illegally fishing within Guernsey's 12-mile limit will act as a warning to others, according to the States.
BBC: Brixham registered beam trawler in St Peter Port Harbour
Under the proposal, the Coast Guard would be able to patrol waters 12 miles from the U.S. shore, as compared to the current 3-mile limit.
She said Britain should introduce "higher standards of management and conservation" in respect of all fishing vessels that fish in its waters within a 12-mile limit.
"Most of the new member states, and Greece, restrict fishing in their 12-mile limit to only their national fleets and so there is a precedent, " she told Mr Benyon.
Because of the 20-mile limit, most of the Mexican trucks checked are short-hop rigs that pick up a load on the Mexican side and bring it across for an American rig to take onwards.
If you go over your allotted miles, you pay extra: the going rate is about 15 cents for every mile over your limit, and 20-25 cents for luxury cars.
"I would scrap the planned western bypass, put more investment into public transport and cycle lanes and introduce a 20 mile an hour residential limit, " he told the audience.
The sanctity of mortgage obligations has become the rough moral equivalent of the 55-mile-per-hour speed limit.
Over a one-mile distance on Interstate 84 northeast of Hartford, the fastest 5% of drivers routinely flaunt the 65-mile-per-hour speed limit by driving 85 miles per hour.
Drivers on the winding, heavily traveled Saw Mill River Parkway frequently reach speeds of 78 to 85 miles per hour between the towns of Elmsford and Hawthorne, despite the 50-mile-per-hour speed limit.
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