Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young people are concerned, pessimism is a dirty word, faith in the future is not a ridiculous ideal, and America will still be around when we're 80 years old. We lowered the voting age to 18. Why not go a step further and bring down the legal age for serving in Congress? Dan Voll for President...
This quiet life was disturbed two years ago by the visit of an investigator for the Silkwoods. Smith made a decision that swept him into a complex legal fight. "I figured if somebody, no matter who, asked a question, I ought to answer," he recalls. "Well, pretty soon it was the Silkwood people, the Kerr-McGee people and the reporters, and then I'm in court. If nobody had found me to ask questions, I wouldn't be involved in the damn thing...
...grade-B movie. Thanks to the publicity, Marvin is getting more film offers than ever before. Michelle has a contract to write a book. And Marvin Mitchelson, her lawyer, has received a $25,000 advance for a book of his own, and his law business has tripled. Its legal ramifications may be unclear, but Marvin vs. Marvin has proved once again that grime usually pays in Tinsel Town...
There should be some relaxation of the laws currently hobbling the CIA. Because of all the restrictions, the agency's legal and inspection staff has more than tripled in the past years. As Schlesinger puts it, "A CIA officer can hardly do his job if he has lawyers following him around reading the U.S. Code to him." Especially nettlesome is the fact that the CIA is subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the only intelligence service in the world that has to produce information for outsiders on demand. Dozens of CIA officials are tied up responding to inquiries...
...would be the best thing for the University if it were out of its legal power to divest," Schelling said, adding, "There is nobody at the University who wants to deal with the portfolio...