Word: law
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that kind of dirt were dollars, Henley would be flush enough. These days he lives in Los Angeles and travels to his small spread outside Aspen, Colo. ("my ranchette"). He also devotes time to social issues like the Southern Poverty Law Center, as well as a variety of environmental groups. But what he can always take to the bank is his gift for songwriting, which keeps growing. Talking about the legacy of the Eagles, he says, "The Eagles were another link in the chain, a logical extension of what came before. But I don't think the '70s will ever...
...look at the President's 279-page plan for implementing his promise to clean up America's spacious but smoggy skies, they claimed he had double-crossed them. Bush, they said, had retreated substantially from his Rocky Mountain rhetoric and in some areas even fell short of current law...
When the final measure was released, environmentalists rushed to declare defeat. What angered them most was a provision that would allow automakers to build some cars that spew out more hydrocarbons than they do under current law, even though new overall emissions standards would be tougher than before. The carmakers could do that by averaging the emissions of every car they ^ produce in a given model year, offsetting the most polluting vehicles with less polluting models. Auto-company experts do not dispute the environmentalists' interpretation of the "fleet-averaging" provision, but they insist that the bottom line will still...
...make it the principal topic at its biennial meeting last month in Madison, Wis. Ironically, the regents of the University of Wisconsin had passed their own rules against defamation just before the ACLU members convened on the university's campus. Nadine Strossen, of New York University School of Law, who was defending the ACLU's traditional position on free speech, said of Wisconsin's new rules, "You can tell how bad they are by the fact that the regents had to make an amendment at the last minute exempting classroom discussion! What is surprising is that Donna Shalala ((chancellor...
...matter, to Ralph Nader. If one disapproves of a social practice, whether it is racist speech or unjust hiring in lettuce fields, one is free to denounce that and to call on others to express their disapproval. Otherwise there would be no form of persuasive speech except passing a law. This would make the law coterminous with morality...