Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...permit system, which governs renovation, and not the buying and selling of units, is an effort to avoid the legal obstacles that have hampered past attempts to prevent the spread of condominiums. Court challenges have already started for the new ordinance, though, and some condo developers predict the new rent control regulations will be outlawed before they're ever approved...
While the legal battles meander through the courts, condominium conversion may be continuing. "At some places, they (developers) have lost their rehabilitation loans, but in other areas it hasn't changed the pace of conversions," Lawrence A. Frisoli, a city councilor who voted in favor of condo conversions, said last week. Frisoli's claims are wishful thinking, responds Sullivan. "I haven't heard of a single condo being occupied. When the law is broken, I assume the person will be prosecuted and end up with a $500 fine and a criminal record for the rest of his or her life...
...million, Bush's $1.5 million, Reagan's $1.4 million, and Baker's $643,000. His string of lavish money-raising fetes?usually gatherings of a wealthy handful at stately homes from Newport to Easthampton to Orange County, Calif, bring in up to $1,000 per guest, the legal maximum...
...mother, Mildred Kassab, and her stepfather Alfred, both 58. Originally they believed MacDonald's story; Alfred Kassab had even testified as a character witness at 1970 Army hearings that cleared the captain. But the Kassabs quickly developed doubts and began what the husband openly called a "legal vendetta," importuning federal authorities to reopen the case. MacDonald was finally indicted in early 1975, but the trial was further delayed by a flock of appeals, including three to the Supreme Court...
There is more. Society fattens its children on junk food and then permits them to be enlisted in pornographic films. The nation subdivides into a dozen drug cultures - the alcohol culture, the cocaine culture, the heroin culture, the Valium culture, the amphetamine culture, and combinations thereof. Legal abortions and the pervasive custom of contraception suggest a society so chary of its future that it has lost its will to perpetuate itself. Says British Author Malcolm Muggeridge: "What will make historians laugh at us is how we express our decadence in terms of freedom and humanism. Western society suffers from...