Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard's previous policy of requiring marital status as a prerequisite to housing violated both state and local law...
...relatively small group of people. Scientists believed at the time that AZT would be effective only for those suffering from full-blown AIDS, and they were confident that more effective AIDS drugs would soon supplant AZT. As a result, the Government invoked the Orphan Drug Act, a law passed in 1983 to give pharmaceuticals makers financial incentives to develop treatments for rare diseases. The law allowed the Government to give Burroughs Wellcome an exclusive seven-year license, to commence when AZT reached the market...
...should I waste my time sitting on a tractor?" Dull replied in an interview in the daily Izvestia. "There are already 40 extra people here to do that." In Ohio, says Dull, he and his three sons and one son-in-law run the farm themselves; in the Ukraine, he estimates, an operation of the same size would require the services of 140 workers and six supervisors...
Many medical and legal experts fear that the ruling, if upheld, could slow in-vitro research and intensify the national abortion debate. "A bad decision," says Ellen Wright Clayton, a specialist in law and pediatrics at Vanderbilt University. The judge could simply have weighed the respective interests of each spouse, Clayton contends, and decided to award the eggs to Mrs. Davis without going on to say when life begins...
...help resolve many of the ambiguities raised by the decade-old, $1 billion in-vitro baby business -- particularly when the clinics and couples, like the Davises, fail to set out their rights and responsibilities in contracts. "Legislators don't want to touch this hot potato," says Boston University Law School professor Frances Miller, "so the courts have to deal with these issues." With more than 200 conception clinics around the country, and 2 million couples seeking their services, the judges may get a workout...