Word: frameworks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Burger Court. The tremendous work load and end-of-term rush to judgment leave little time for collegiality. Nor are the divisions necessarily bad. Says Stanford Law Professor Gerald Gunther: "I disagree with the assumption that the country is best off with Justices who have a simple, predictable framework. More often than not those courts have been wrong...
...legal framework for this issue began to take its modern form in 1953. New York Giants Catcher Wes Westrum had signed contracts giving two rival bubble-gum firms exclusive rights to put him on their baseball cards. The companies took their fight to court, where a federal judge recognized the "right of publicity," entitling celebrities to a cut of the profits rung up by merchandise bearing their likenesses...
...leader of the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. Behind their personal rivalry lay opposed visions of government: Beheshti and his fundamentalist allies seek total power in a single-party theocratic state. Banisadr and fellow moderates like Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh want a modern, pragmatic government within an Islamic revolutionary framework; they are especially eager to shore up an economy reeling under 50% inflation, 30% unemployment and drastically declining oil production...
That prospect is unlikely indeed, but Vance insisted that SALT still could preserve "essential equivalence" with the Soviets. Yet even that provides only a framework for seeking better relations with the Soviets. "It is foolish and dangerous to believe that we can manage this relationship by deterrence alone," said Vance. "We will also need to provide positive incentives. We must work for implicit, if not explicit, agreements to bound our competition by restraints, by a kind of common law of competition ... We cannot afford wild swings from being too trusting to being hysterical...
...Camp David framework is not a solution. It is a process, the breaking of perhaps status quo. If we had moved faster on certain decisions, perhaps other problems, like the future of Jerusalem, wouldn't have arisen the way they did. One of the things that Camp David says is that if an agreement is reached, the military government is to be withdrawn. I'll be the happiest man on and to see that we Israelis let the Arabs in the West Bank and Gaza view their own lives if they behave themselves from the point of view...