Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard lost a major legal battle with the state yesterday when a superior court judge enjoined the University from further construction on portions of its Medical Area power plant project that a state environmental agency had ruled would release too much pollution...
Yesterday's court decision resolved one legal fight in the path of the project, but other obstacles remain in the way of the project's completion, which has been delayed by a series of agency deliberations and court cases...
...division, but will be lucky to grab second place at the season's end. Philadelphia virtually locked up the championship with the Jones for McGinnis swap, provided Julius Erving can still do it, ABA-style. The Knicks are good on paper, and will be good if the paper is legal tender and given to Monroe and Jim McMillian. The Celtics will reach .500 only if opposing teams refuse to play while Dave Cowens is out. With Kevin Porter traded to Detroit for Eric Money, the Nets need a play maker who can bounce the ball as well as they bounce...
...spokesman at Clamshell's Portsmouth, N.H. branch yesterday cited the "doctrine of competing harms" as the major legal issues in the two incidents. The Clamshell group said the danger posed by the presence of the plant overshadows the danger posed by the demonstrator's act of trespassing...
...people are going into the priesthood than ever before, and the vitality of religion is underlined by huge outdoor folk Masses and an incredible number of new church buildings), the Church's traditional role as a focus for national sentiment is being linked with that of a natural and legal focus for an alternative structure of allegiance to that of the Communist Party. While the pulpit remains uncensored, though priests sign human rights petitions and the Primate and his fellow bishops criticize the government on social issues, the regime is caught in a dilemma of choosing between semi-toleration...