Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Worried public officials vow to fight Proposition 13 in the courts if it is ap proved next week. They intend to challenge it on a wide variety of legal grounds, including its possible unconstitutionality. But in hopes of preventing passage, they have also launched a public relations blitz...
...against the deal. He assigned an assistant to sit through all of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's hearings on the issue, not being a member himself. On the weekend he secluded himself in his rustic cabin at Matunuck, R.I., jotting down the pros and cons on a legal pad. He was impressed by the fact that his closest friend in the Senate, Republican Charles Percy, favored the sales. He decided to go with Percy. Back in Washington on Monday, he learned that the President had telephoned him three times, David and Nelson Rockefeller had called. Chafee returned...
...reduce from 45 days to 30 days the legal organizing period, so as to give management less time to fight unionization...
...flamboyant peep-show operator out of sight for some time. Not only was he sent to jail for 8½ years, but further investigations into his alleged Mob connections raised the possibility of new indictments. It now seems clear that Thevis, 46, was not turned on by his legal prospects. And so last week, while a federal grand jury dutifully continued its probe into his racketeering, two more juries were investigating how on April 28 the paunchy, balding Thevis managed to walk blithely away from the Floyd County jail in New Albany...
...discovery of the real New World came soon after, with a triumphant debut at Carnegie Hall in 1920. He liked the praise, the skyscrapers, a certain "bravado and toughness" about Americans. He decided to stay. Almost immediately, his misfortunes began. Critics had second thoughts. He lost a legal wrangle with his manager over fees, and was blacklisted by the musical fraternity. Then his marriage - in 1926 to a woman eleven years older, who had promised to re-establish his career - blew...