Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crucial for a university's survival," says Jack H. Shuster, education and public policy professor at Claremont Graduate School and a self-described "president-watcher." He says that this new breed can be called "scholar-practitioners," neither the traditional denizens of the academic world nor the mediators of the legal profession...
...dispute also raises legal questions about mowing the area. If Harvard cuts the grass in the Quad, it could be construed to mean that the University has "accepted" the landscaping work from the Providence based Dimeo Construction Company...
University officials refused to say who was to blame for the sodding. A spokesman for Vice President and General Counsel Daniel Steiner '54, head of Harvard's legal office, said he was unaware of the dispute...
...conclusion of the 10-day hearing moves the dispute only a few inches closer to a resolution. On Friday the union and the University will present the administrative law judge with further legal briefs and then await his ruling on the case--a wait labor experts said may last until the end of the year...
...maintains that such deportations are illegal under the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention, which forbids the transfer of residents from a territory occupied during wartime. Whitehead's rebuke, however, is unlikely to sway Israeli officials, who have already deported 33 alleged troublemakers in what they contend is a legal effort to quell the eight-month-old Palestinian uprising...