Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...limits are the resistance in each country to integration between the two. You have more people going from Mexico to the U.S., and you get a Simpson-Rodino ((immigration)) law. You have more drugs going to the U.S., and you get ditches. The limits are the fears and the objective interests in both countries against closer ties with each other. They exist on both sides...
...investigators and reporters jostled for scraps of information about yet another apparent traitor, did anyone care that under the law Bloch was still presumed innocent? His case may indeed prove to be the most serious spy scandal to come out of the State Department since the Alger Hiss affair. But, wrote columnist Lars-Erik Nelson of the New York Daily News, Bloch "is also a U.S. citizen, entitled to due process before execution." Charles Schmitz, vice president of the American Foreign Service Association, said the baying after Bloch was "terrible either way -- for his rights if innocent, for the case...
When news of the scandal broke, much of the case against Bloch still consisted of statements from intelligence sources and evidence gathered by methods that might not even be admissible at a trial. Under U.S. law, direct evidence is required of the transfer to foreigners of damaging secret information. Sources claim that Bloch, 54, a 30-year State Department veteran, was photographed passing a briefcase to a known Soviet agent in Paris. Reportedly, the same agent later tipped Bloch off to the investigation: "A bad virus is going around, and we believe you are now infected...
...more cordial climate for such deals. Before Time and Warner were allowed to consolidate, many companies feared that an agreement to merge would be tantamount to putting themselves up for sale. But the Delaware courts affirmed the right of corporate directors to pursue long-term strategies. Says Harvard law professor Reinier Kraakman of the new precedent: "This gives managers who are planning a friendly acquisition or a merger of equals a chance to go forward without losing out to a hostile acquirer...
...speaks, people hear a great deep rumble with just a hint of grit. In a land where unmarried women are considered somehow incomplete, Doi remains steadfastly single. But the leader of the Japan Socialist Party has used her difference to advantage. Says Shinobu Tabata, her mentor at Doshisha law school in Kyoto: "She was big, loud and pushy to start with. I knew from the first day she came into my office that she would make a fine politician...