Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After 17 years of legislative struggle, the Gay Civil Rights Bill, being debated again today in the Senate as Bill H.5427, is closer to becoming law than ever before in its stormy history on Beacon Hill...
Later this summer, the San Francisco Board ofSupervisors passed the Domestic Partnership Law,making it the first major city in the country togive municipal recognition to any gay orheterosexual couple sharing a residence andwishing to declare their relationship. The law,however, is temporarily blocked by a petitioncontaining 27,000 signatures opposing...
WAIT. I am having second thoughts. Perhaps Mobuto is not that bad after all. He claims to be very popular among his own people. In 1984, after making failure to vote punishable by law, his party received 99.16 percent of the vote in general elections. Of course, no one else was listed on the ballot, but that is still an impressive outcome...
WHEN Robert C. Clark was appointed last year as new dean of the Law School, detractors said he was not committed to many of the positive changes in the school brought about by former Dean James Vorenberg '49. Clark already showed the truth of these claims in his decision over the summer to eliminate the school's public-interest counseling office...
...person office was an important part of Vorenberg's effort to present the public-interest option to students at a school notorious for supplying the partners of the nation's largest corporate law firms. (Only 6 percent of Harvard Law School students currently go into public-interest law.) Vorenberg also instituted the nation's most generous loan-forgiveness program two years ago, which pays the debts of students with incomes under certain minimal points...