Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...amendments accepted by the Faculty Council establish an equal ratio between students and faculty on the committee, bar legal counsel at hearings before the CRR, and guarantee the right to petition to release transcripts of any CRR hearing...
Hall and Rohr originally used a photocopy of stock market quotations in the Wall Street Journal as a negative for a silkscreen, but after receiving legal advice, they decided to typeset a fictional stock market page instead...
...lopsided composition of the committee has led to an improperly large concern within the committee about the financial and legal aspects of decisions being made by the committee to the exclusion of many of the moral aspects. For instance, some committee members fear that if Harvard were to initiate a shareholder resolution, stock prices could be driven down so far that the company would sue Harvard, causing Harvard to pay out all sorts of legal expenses. (This view, incidentally, conflicts with the Corporation's view that Harvard has so little clout that divestiture would be ineffective.) This fiscal and legal...
...A.M.A. was particularly outraged by Barnes' order that future ethical guidelines first get the FTC O.K. Said Hunter: "There is no legal precedent in the United States for the federal bureaucracy to write or approve a code of ethics for any of the learned professions...
...movie follows its robber heroes from their early years as clumsy stickup men through their big score and its legal aftermath. There are some giddy set pieces, most notably a gummed-up bubble gum factory robbery, but it is the intimate moments and throwaway wisecracks that pay off best. This is due in no small part to Friedkin's cast, which is full of idiosyncratic comic actors who delight in playing amiable lowlife slobs...