Word: lawing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President sternly accused Iran of violating standards of human behavior and international law in holding the hostages and warned of "grave consequences" if any are harmed. He vowed that the U.S. "will never yield to blackmail or international terrorism." Said he: "There are some conditions, prices, for the hostages that this country will not pay." Responding to a question about the debate that has already begun over whether he (hould have allowed the Shah to enter the U.S. in the first place, Carter stoutly declared that he had "no regrets and no apologies...
...kind of contract in Iran. One example: between 1973 and 1975 the Bell Helicopter division of Textron Inc., which was selling choppers to the Iranian air force, paid a $3 million commission to a company that turned out to be secretly owned in part by a brother-in-law of the Shah. The Shah indirectly acknowledged the corruption by periodically announcing drives to root it out, but he never succeeded in doing so-if, in fact, he ever really tried...
...October, ETS failed to send out admissions tickets to its popular Law School Admissions Test (LSAT). And as of last week, the service had yet to send out those grade and LSAT score summaries it usually starts mailing in October to American law schools that depend on the reports for evaluating applicants. The delays have slowed admissions work throughout the country...
Molly Geraghty, assistant dean for admissions at the Law School, said last week the delay will prevent the Law School from sending out admissions decisions to the 10 per cent of the applicant pool whose files are otherwise complete. She said she expects to start sending out decisions in January, a month after the usual date...
While the Educational Testing Service toys with its haywire computer in the Tiger-infested regions of Princeton, N.J., students around the nation are grappling with an ever-increasing pre-law neurosis...