Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...used only to generate electricity. Last year, nuclear plants produced 12.5% of the nation's electricity, or something less than 4% of its total energy. Utilities have cut back sharply on their once ambitious plans for nuclear expansion because of rocketing costs of plant construction, regulatory and legal delays, and uncertainty about how rapidly demand for electricity will grow. President Nixon's energy planners foresaw atomic plants supplying 40% of all U.S. electricity by the year 2000. Jimmy Carter's strategists can see no more than 25% (or less than 8% of total energy consumption), and there...
...zeal of a revivified Islam is being felt. Earlier this year Pakistan added measures from the Shari'a?the Islamic code of justice based primarily on the Koran?to its criminal and civil laws. In Kuwait, a revised version of the Shari'a is being adopted in the legal code of that oil-rich desert state. Responding to a groundswell of Muslim fundamentalism, Egypt's People's Assembly is also debating the imposition of the Shari'a, which could close down the bars, nightclubs and gambling casinos that glitter along Cairo's Pyramid Road...
...contends first that divestiture is "legally questionable. "But this University has never before made a practice of deferring to the opinion of the attorney general of Oregon on legal questions of such importance. For instance, Harvard filed a friend of the court brief in the Bakke case...
...have a legal government in office and Amin is now the rebel," Lule told thousands gathered at the steps of the newly opened parliament building...
Harvard officials said they did not know how long each tenant lived in the building and thought the notice was legal. On January 16 the University served a second notice in the language and format required by the Rent Control board, listing, as did the first, three grounds for eviction-- misrepresentation of tenancy, damage to property and the desire of the University to convert the building into a four-to-five family apartment unit...