Word: law
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Hoffman was already 31 when he and Jerry Rubin formed an amalgam of political pranksters into the Youth International Party. "Yippies believe in the violation of every law," he once told a crowd, "including the law of gravity." In 1968 they ran a pig for President. As a lead-up to that year's Democratic Convention in Chicago, they vowed to spike the local water supply with LSD. The schemes were mostly put-ons and fodder for the press, Hoffman's most faithful co-conspirator. It was revolution as street shtick...
Heublein, which manufactures Smirnoff in Connecticut, hopes to persuade the Government that its slogan is within the law. The Smirnoff brand remains the best-selling vodka in the U.S. market, but it faces growing competition from such trendy brands as Sweden's Absolut and the Soviet Union's Stolichnaya...
...just a vague and spotted impression. According to a Harris survey, the amount of leisure time enjoyed by the average American has shrunk 37% since 1973. Over the same period, the average workweek, including commuting, has jumped from under 41 hours to nearly 47 hours. In some professions, predictably law, finance and medicine, the demands often stretch to 80-plus hours a week. Vacations have shortened to the point where they are frequently no more than long weekends. And the Sabbath is for -- what else? -- shopping...
...Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, about a graduate seminar he will co-teach next year with Professor of Geology Steven J. Gould and Porter Professor of Philosophy Robert Nozick...
...Regents of Higher Education Paul Tsongas to consider pushing for a referendum, which would be on the state ballot in November 1990, requiring Massachusetts to set aside 7 percent of its annual budget for education. The farsighted Tsongas plan deserves to be on the ballot and transferred into law...