Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...added that there will be three othercategories of discussion at the Decemberconference: Economic Issues, Legal andConstitutional Limits and New FeministScholarship. Alice Rivlin, who was a fellow at theInstitute of Politics last spring and was directorof the Congressional Budget Office, will write apaper on the economic issues women face...
...violating any of the laws he had been entrusted to enforce. But far from the "vindication" that Meese had confidently predicted, McKay's 830-page report asserts that Ronald Reagan's longtime friend "willfully" filed a false tax return and "probably" violated conflict-of-interest laws. If Meese's legal troubles are behind him, his ethical behavior remains troubling...
...commission, was to be a week of activities focusing attention on conservation in local communities throughout the country. But last April Mott's boss, Interior Secretary Donald Hodel, chewed out the pair and demanded they abandon their efforts. Soon after, Mott and Fraser received a memorandum from Interior's legal office telling them they were under investigation and should retain outside legal counsel. "Hodel humiliated Mott," says one department official...
...four-year legal battle between the Harvard Business School and one of its former tenure candidates draws to a close, many B-School professors contacted this week said that they are increasingly less certain that Harvard will win the case...
HUCTW won the election, in which over 90 percent of support staff members voted, by a 44-vote margin. The union contends that Harvard's charges are merely a delaying tactic and that it was engaged in legal get-out-the-vote efforts...