Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...legal "basis" for the government's censorship is the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, a Cold War relic that prohibits the release of "all data" concerning nuclear technology. A vague and probably unconstitutional act, it has lent itself to selective and capricious government enforcement, and should be revised or repealed...
Westling said the terminations were legal under the contract. He said the letters were sent before Aug. 31--the one-year notification deadline--and departments were consulted when the deans decided which contracts should not be renewed...
...legally bound himself to NBC, the network contends, until April 1981. Network sources also say the contract stipulates that he not do a talk show for anybody else for a year after that. To settle the argument quickly, both sides have taken advantage of a legal short cut and submitted their case to retired Judge Parks Stillwell. Even so, his decision may not be ready for several months...
Harvard mailed some of its tenants their rent increase notices after the legal deadline, and officials say they had no plans to tell tenants of the situation or to correct it. "It's not our fault," Robert Silverman, Real Estate Department offical said, blaming city administrative foul-ups for the delay...
...knows?" Alper said from his desk in city hall last July. "Is it legal? Is it true? Are they paying wages? Do they want to take over the world? There have been investigations. Who Knows...