Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Schulman said that when he became the nation's first full-time government AIDS discrimination attorney in 1985, he had a small office and no legal precedents to follow--but hundreds of discrimination complaints. He said he realized his main task was to fight ignorance...
Schulman called new constitutional interpretations as important as scientific advances that could cure the disease. "Civil rights for Blacks, women and the disabled provide a legal basis for the social resolution of the AIDS crisis," he said...
...that undergraduates will not isolate themselves behind the Yard's ivy walls but instead spread Harvard's resources in the community. The 94-year-old organization plays an important role in the lives of the underprivileged in Boston and Cambridge--operating programs such as summer camps, tutoring and free legal help for the poor...
...average wait for an election is 60 days, during which time the NLRB defines which workers are eligible to vote as part of the union's potential "bargaining unit." But previous elections at Harvard have been delayed for up to two years by legal challenges from the University administration. During this election the administration is expected to erect legal stumbling blocks to delay the union campaign on whether research assistants or other categories of workers should be eligible to vote...
...putting all conceivable barriers in front of the union, it is high time to let the employees make their own choice. When filing its election petition yesterday, the union defined the bargaining unit in the same terms as the administration used in the past, to avoid further legal conflict. Harvard should abide by its own rules, as well...