Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Obviously, we can not tolerate such behavior in a democratic society, especially one in which abortion has been legal for 15 years and one in which the Constitution guarantees all citizens equal protection of the law. Firebombing clearly goes well beyond legitimate civil disobedience...
...beyond these claims, the anonymous author distorted or ignored relevant facts. In doing so, he made an argument in favor of legal abortion on demand which is clearly untenable and which demonstrates how some prochoice arguments suffer from severe gaps in logic...
Although the case was settled out of court in December, Bulger had received $240,000 out of the payment through a trust fund. Bulger has said that the money was a loan against future legal fees and that he repaid the loan with interest once he knew Brown was the source of funds...
...Schkolnick '88, have spent months responding to commission inquiries, raising objections and gathering evidence to back their views. Now MCAD must sort out the information and decide whether it has jurisdiction over the case and how it should rule. The state judicial body has given the case to its legal arm to review, according to spokesperson Judith K. Wright...
...Andrei Kozyrev, a deputy chief in the Soviet Foreign Ministry, recently admitted, capitalism has evolved a "mutually accepted legal framework," such that "class conflicts largely take place through the achievement of compromise." By adapting, capitalism disarmed the dialectic. The Soviets are now obsessed with adaptation. They recognize that the West's capacity for adaptation is the key to its success -- and the Soviets' incapacity for it is the cause of their decline...