Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also does not address the problem offinancing such travel. The East German mark is notconvertible and lack of foreign currency couldmake a legal trip impossible...
Professor Arzt concludes that the amendment now facing the Knesset "would place Israel in a camp with the country most widely known for its manipulative uses of law and the legal system to repress civil liberties and civil rights...
...many legal experts say that trend has sparked a positive reaction in recent years. They say calls for more private pro bono work are growing increasingly loud, even if the voices are predominantly from an older generation of lawyers...
...lunch that day, all she could think about (and all Richard Cohen, the legal director of the center, could recall her talking about) was water. On the flight down, she was particularly struck by a line from Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech, the line, partly borrowed from the Bible, that said, "We will not be satisfied until 'justice rolls down like waters and righteousness like a mighty stream.' " It occurred to her that water would be an ideal element for a hot climate, that its calm, soothing quality and quiet, constant sound would be perfect...
Museveni has been building his own kind of democracy. Local affairs are run by "resistance councils." Last February voters were permitted to cast ballots for added seats to the National Resistance Council, Uganda's renamed parliament. But Museveni's National Resistance Movement is the only legal political organization, and the unelected President last week had the N.R.C. extend his term of office five years...