Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more dramatic evidence of a break with the old thinking than the recent events in Poland. Solidarity leader Lech Walesa signing an agreement, smiling even, with Polish Communist officials. The union grew out of economic despair in 1980 and was crushed the next year by the imposition of martial law, one of the last ironfisted displays of Brezhnev-style authority...
...economic decline, and the accord is weakest in its economic provisions. It includes only limited measures to advance productivity and a highly risky plan to index workers' wages. The Bush Administration is thinking of rewarding Poland for its moves toward liberalization by extending new credits, the first since martial law was imposed in 1981. Even a generous loan, however, may not be enough to help Poland surmount its $39 billion foreign debt, aging industries and chronic consumer shortages. All too many Poles are gripped with a visible depression of spirit that even the astonishing political changes have failed to lift...
...insist that drug profiles are meant only to inform and advise agents and that actual arrests depend on the individual professional judgments of officers. Officials deny the documents are stereotypical portraits of disfavored groups. "They're more of a mental checklist," says Harry Myers, chief of DEA's criminal-law section. Others are not so sure. "After 23 years in customs law, you notice that inspectors look for certain things," says Los Angeles attorney Leonard Fertman. "If you're coming from Central America without a camera or luggage and you have a beard, you may spend more time being questioned...
...proper timidity and delicacy which belongs to the female sex evidently unfits it for many of the occupations of civil life," wrote Justice Joseph Bradley in an 1873 opinion. A century later, the unseemly became ordinary as women, riding a new wave of feminism, swept through the nation's law schools. In the U.S. today, more than 40% of law students and 20% of lawyers are women. As their numbers have swelled, so has their influence. "Our voices are definitely being heard," says Carrie Menkel-Meadow, a law professor at the University of California, Los Angeles...
Women lawyers today are boldly challenging the status quo. Last week more than a thousand people gathered in Oakland for the 20th National Conference on Women and the Law, where feminist scholars explored everything from marriage to murder. In school courses, articles and reading groups across the country, women are re-examining all aspects of the law, from teaching materials to fundamental principles. The aim: to uproot the sexism and inequality they feel are inherent in Western legal thought. "The law has been written with men in mind," explains Professor Mary Coombs of the University of Miami Law School. "Feminist...