Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minute later, Felsen, armed with a new, legal stick, fed Groome. Groome's goal was all Dermody and her defensive crew would need...
Thus began what is intended to be the most thorough inquiry so far into Waldheim's wartime record. Yet the "trial" is taking place not in a court but in a TV studio outside London. The defendant will not be present, and the judges' verdict will have no legal standing. The bulk of the proceedings, moreover, are being kept secret until they are shown on television -- edited down to a 3 1/2-hour program that will air June 5 in the U.S. on HBO, as well as in Britain and nearly 30 other countries, but not Austria...
...Supreme Court ruling allowing for patents for genetically altered microorganisms has been interpreted as clearing the way for legal licenses of all new types of life forms, excluding humans. In the last eight years, the rapidly expanding field of biotechnology has outpaced congressional legislation defining the scope of the ruling...
Activists have made the argument in the past few months that the disagreement over a Board vote goes back to the original Charter and the legal role of the Board. Robert Weissman '88-89, director of the Ralph Nader-sponsored Harvard Watch, wrote a report to the Overseers in March arguing that the Board should resurrect its rights and vote on divestment...
Only the Cambridge DTP stands between the street musicians of Cambridge and their legal use of amplification. No laws need to be changed; rather, the DTP's mind needs to be changed...