Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aegis of his brothers and then in the Senate. He became a Senator in 1963 at the age of 30, almost inheriting the seat that had once been held by his brother Jack and then kept warm by a Kennedy lieutenant until Teddy reached the Senate's minimum legal age. ("If your name was Edward Moore your candidacy would be a joke," his defeated Democratic rival said bitterly during the 1962 primary campaign...
Bishop is the third person to walk that road in the U.S. since 1967.* According to the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund, 550 men and six women in 28 states now remain on death rows. Who may die next is uncertain, since none of the cases has yet exhausted its appeals. But opponents of the death penalty have little doubt that others will soon be executed, and that, though Bishop's case is unusual, his demise further hurts their cause. ''Each execution makes it easier to kill the next time,'' says former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey...
...tremendous growth of Government regulation has inevitably meant that more intricate statutes need legal interpretation. Thus the court faces a growing work load. ''There are just more hard and more deserving cases than there used to be,'' says White. To day the court hands down more than half again as many written opinions as it did 25 years ago, and at term's end, the Justices often find ''themselves rushing to finish their drafts. Says Powell: "The pressure of time prevents us from going from chamber to chamber to work things...
...depends on your definition of "periodically." Buried in the middle of the May 1977 agreement that redefined Radcliffe's educational, financial and legal relationship with Harvard, there is a clause outlining the functions of the Joint Policy Committee. The Committee, or the JPC as it would probably be known if anybody except the members knew it existed, was established primarily to draw up the agreement...
Horner says she would call a meeting if a dispute arose over a "major financial or legal matter." And both Presidents agree that, because of the close working relationships among the committee's members, there's no danger that important issues will be lost in the bureaucratic shuffle...