Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writers led by playwright Harold Pinter presented a petition in Rushdie's behalf at No. 10 Downing Street. Author Anthony Burgess, writing in the newspaper the Independent, stated the Western position precisely: "What a secular society thinks of the Prophet Muhammad is its own affair, and reason, apart from law, does not permit aggressive interference of the kind that has brought shame and death to Islamabad," where the rioting took several lives. "If Muslims want to attack the Christian or humanistic vision of Islam contained in our literature," Burgess observed, "they will find more vicious travesties than Mr. Rushdie...
...into his personal circle. As Richardson toured the Nixon and Ford Cabinets -- serving as head of Defense, Justice and Commerce -- Darman followed. Richardson, a problem-solving progressive who wore his Republicanism lightly, even served Jimmy Carter as vice chairman of the U.S. delegation to the U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea. With that political lineage and a wife describing herself as "alas, a good old-fashioned liberal," Darman was hardly a natural fit in the conservative Reagan White House...
...articulate and confident Kirkland House resident is majoring in Social Studies and plans to go on to law school after graduation next year...
Faculty members and administrators say that the structure of the tenure system itself presents a major obstacle in formulating responses to the federal law. They say there will be no way to assure that professors who remain in their posts after age 70 will stay productive, since tenured professors are never reviewed for their teaching and scholarship...
...When the law takes effect, our current plan will overachieve the objective," says Scott. "You'll have faculty leaving with a pension higher than their salary. No company is interested in having that kind of a situation...