Word: lawfulness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...voices attempting to rouse Britons to this reality. Margaret Thatcher was helped by the race issue during her campaign. "The moment a minority threatens to become a big one," she said on TV early last year, "people get frightened. The British character has done so much for democracy, for law, that if there is any fear that it might be swamped, people are going to react and be rather hostile to those coming in." After that speech, Thatcher's standing in the polls shot up 11%, because she seemed to be granting respectability to anti-immigrant sentiment...
...this country. I'd rather be a crook." A Jamaican who left the island when he was three, Cecil has not held a job since he graduated from school last year. Unable to find anything paying more than $50 a week, he has had repeated brushes with the law, and plans to return to Jamaica when he has enough cash. "Look at the streets here," he says. "You see a lot of people suffering- no job, no money...
...name of a "highly recommended" attorney. After crashes abroad, American lawyers have been known to travel to the villages where the victims lived, rent a hall and then invite the heirs to come and listen to a talk about "their rights." The DC-10 crash prompted a San Francisco law firm to place an ad in the Los Angeles Times headlined, in mortuary gothic letters, TO THOSE WHO NEED TO KNOW ABOUT AN AVIATION DISASTER. The ad invited readers to call the firm collect for further counsel. (Twelve readers responded; so far none have signed up.) Is the ad ethical...
...ultimately retain as much of the compensation as is properly due you without unnecessary diversion of large amounts to legal expenses." "Outrageous was the response from Lee Kreindler, 55, a highly respected New York City lawyer who is one of a small group that specializes in aviation accident law. Alpert had no business "butting in" on the lawyer-client relationship, said Kreindler. He added: "I know of no case where a claimant benefited by dealing directly with a liability insurance company." In the 1977 collision between two Boeing 747s on the ground at Tenerife in the Canary Islands, for instance...
...commendable as the feminists' objectives may seem, critics worry about their methods, explaining that they could undermine free speech, encourage the suppression of ideas and possibly lead to book burnings. Says Harvard Law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz: "Women who would have the government ban sexist material are the new McCarthyites. It's the same old censorship in radical garb." But feminists, who plan to take their fight to state legislatures, insist that the issue is violence against women, not free speech. Says Brownmiller: "It's a myth that obscenity and pornography are protected by the First Amendment...