Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experts say that legal delays in a unioncertification process often weaken the union'sbase of support and that Harvard's choice toappeal will be publicly perceived as a stronganti-union tactic
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (DEQE) sent a letter to Deputy City Solicitor Donald Drisdall noting the "legal ramifications" of "apparent discrepancies" between a 1975 EPA law on commercial parking and Cambridge's compliance with...
...legal counsels for both organizations also insisted that Healy release more information on the amount and type of parking in Cambridge "by no later than 10 days" from the receipt of their letter...
...indictment would not affect U.S. foreign policy interests. Though Reagan was reportedly worried that Marcos might have to go to jail, the President said the case "may not come to my desk at all." The remark was telling: to the Administration, the once powerful Marcos had become a pesky legal problem, and no more...
...next day the government announced that it would introduce legislation to limit the right of suspects in Northern Ireland to remain silent during legal proceedings. Courts could then infer guilt if a suspect refused to answer questions. While the right to silence has been a cornerstone of British criminal justice, the Conservative Party's 101-seat majority in the House of Commons makes passage of the measure virtually certain...