Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roger D. Fisher, Williston Professor of Law, agreed that the U.S. acted improperly in Iran, but said Iranian actions were "crazy" and unnecessary...
Annoyed by the growing G.O.P. challenge, state Democrats thought they had found a way to eliminate it. In 1975 they changed the election law so that candidates of both parties would all enter a single primary. They figured that the two top vote getters would invariably be Democrats, thus eliminating the problem of having anyone face a Republican in the runoff. They figured wrong. In the October primary, Treen outdistanced his adversaries, and will face Democrat Louis Lambert, 38, in the runoff...
Despite all the lurid stories, China's crime rate is probably lower than that in most Western nations. Some observers suspect that the new campaign against crime is part of a broader movement to restore law-and-order that also includes the recent crackdown on China's tiny dissident movement. Last week Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping, talking to a delegation from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, defended the stiff 15-year sentence meted out six weeks ago to Human Rights Activist Wei Jingsheng on the ground that "we needed to make an example of him." At the same time...
...company's 102 lenders fear that if guarantees are granted, but Chrysler still goes bankrupt, federal law requires the Treasury to have a first claim on its assets. Probably not enough money could be raised from selling off its plants and other assets to cover both federally guaranteed loans and Chrysler's burdensome debts. So if Chrysler slid into bankruptcy -a real possibility because its survival plan depends not only on federal guarantees but also on many optimistic projections-the Government would grab most or all the assets...
...case, called Fullilove vs. Kreps, focuses on a 1977 federal law authorizing grants to local governments for public projects with $4 billion to be allocated by Dec. 31, 1978. Noting that minority-controlled companies had been getting only 1% of all Government contracts, Maryland Democrat Parren Mitchell proposed an amendment guaranteeing such firms 10% of the $4 billion. The amendment passed, to the distress of the construction industry. All told, 27 suits were filed charging that the 10% set-aside was unconstitutional. Fullilove, the case that the Supreme Court chose to hear, was brought by H. Earl Fullilove and other...