Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ruling was the latest turn in a dispute between Toyota and Ohio-based Mead Data Central, which since 1973 has offered a computerized legal- information service called Lexis. In December a federal judge in Manhattan upheld Mead's complaint that Lexus infringed on the Lexis trademark, and ordered Toyota to drop the name or pay Mead unspecified damages...
...clung to 50 rent-controlled apartments that cost them as little as $300 a month. Trump brought in a new management company renowned for its ferocity. Out went the lobby furniture, unrepaired went the broken elevator, unpainted and uncleaned the halls and stairways. Eviction notices proliferated. The tenants hired legal help, charging harassment. Trump retaliated by offering to house some of the city's homeless in a few of the luxury building's vacant apartments...
When it was all over, Trump had to give in, leave the tenants in peace and even pay some of their legal costs, but he characteristically describes this as "one of the greatest blessings in disguise." His reasoning: had he been able to expel the tenants, he would have sold their apartments for a fraction of what soaring prices make them worth...
Cardona's legal aid attorney, Jose Sanchez, said yesterday that his client will fight the accusations...
...owners of one popular bar outside campus said that a change in the school's policy will not affect their stance toward the legal drinking...