Word: generality
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the most significant factors contributing to the boom in litigation throughout the 1970s is the general population's stubborn litigiousness over even the most mundane issues, coupled with either a tragic inability or an outright refusal to face and solve routine daily problems that should not even require the intervention of third parties, let alone the involvement of our judicial system...
...treaty was to pass, it had to include some new reservation that could appease both factions. Tougher yet, it must also satisfy Panama's unpredictable chief of state, Omar Torrijos. The General telephoned his ambassador in Washington, Gabriel Lewis, and told him: "Gabriel, we are in the ninth inning. There are two outs and two strikes. See what...
...Soviet and American officials present-especially Secretary of State Cyrus Roberts Vance-understood all too well the reference to Vance's disastrous March 1977 visit, which marked a major setback for the new Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II) and for Soviet-American relations in general. Vance was now back, 13 months later, intending to avoid a repeat performance. As Vance told Gromyko on the eve of the first of their three scheduled days of talks, "complex and difficult problems remain" on the road to SALT II. There are, in fact, three major sticking points in the complex bargaining...
That night, Daniel Steiner '54, general counsel to the University, said that "appropriate action" might be taken against the students who blocked Bok's entry...
Lawyers for the University as well as the attorney general of the Commonwealth will present motions to dismiss a second lawsuit in State Superior Court today--a charge brought by the selectmen of Brookline that Harvard should have been required to obtain a "certificate of need" before beginning to build the power plant, L. Edward Lashman, director of external projects, said yesterday...