Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That is what investigators from the Better Government Association and a team of Chicago Sun-Times reporters headed by Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick discovered after a five-month undercover probe of six of the city's 13 legal abortion clinics. Two of the clinics performed admirably, the investigators say, but four others, which together do one out of every three abortions in the Chicago area, are assembly-line outfits concerned only with making money...
Members of the club's executive, committee, however, said they had assumed proxy votes were legal. 'Proxies have always been used in the past," Linda J. Bilmes '80, treasurer of the club said yesterday...
...everyone got off, however. Congressman John McFall, reprimanded with his two California colleagues for taking Tongsun Park's gifts, lost. So did Philadelphia Congressman Joshua Eilberg, indicted for taking legal fees to help secure federal funds for a local hospital. Former Senator and Watergate Committee Member Edward Gurney of Florida, who was accused but acquitted of taking bribes for Government favors and lying to a grand jury, was defeated in a race for the House. And Florida Congressman Herbert Burke, charged with resisting arrest, disorderly intoxication and trying to influence a witness after an incident in a nude...
...legitimate demands. He insists on the segregation of sexes in schools, but is not opposed to higher education for women or their right to vote-in booths separate from men. "The demands of the religious community and the Iranian people," says Sharietmadari, "are in accordance with the most advanced legal regulations of the world...
...firms, handling such heavyweights as Gillette, Heublein and Paine Webber. Erwin Wasey, a West Coast firm that joined the Interpublic fold in 1963, and Detroit-based Campbell-Ewald, a 1972 acquisition, have also prospered. The parent company decides basic policy, sets annual goals and provides central services such as legal, financial and marketing support, but the agencies are left to fight for clients on their own. Says SSC&B President Alfred J. Seaman: "If we had a new business prospect, I would want us to compete just as hard against McCann-Erick-son and Campbell-Ewald as we would against...