Word: implementation
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Under the so-called American rule, lawyers' fees in the U.S. are not generally charged to the loser, as they are in England, for example. Justice Byron White conceded for the majority that "the encouragement of private action to implement public policy has been viewed as desirable in a variety of circumstances." But, he concluded, Congress has not "extended any roving authority to the Judiciary to allow counsel fees ... whenever the courts might deem them warranted." Siding with William Brennan in disagreement, Thurgood Marshall cited a number of "judge-made exceptions" to the American rule and argued that courts...
...hearing followed a city council order passed by a 7-0 margin on March 3 that sought an increase in school payments and state legislative action to tax private institutions. Residents at Monday's hearing pressed city officials to implement the order as soon as possible...
...assure that "everyone who wants a job can find some kind of job" within the private economy, he said, the federal government must be prepared to implement controls on wages, prices, profits and interest rates...
Members of the coalition enacted a "trial" of President Bok and Andrew F. Brimmer, chairman of the DuBois Institute Advisory Board, at Adams House dining hall last night, for their failure to implement the student proposals...
...course the department did not go along with the justified proposal to do away with one over all general exam, and replace it with a course on comparative history. Moreover, the department declined to implement the reform of the general exams and course requirements immediately. As it stands now, only the class of '78 and later classes will benefit from the reforms...