Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meetings with supervisors and in the booklet, the University advocated that bosses criticize the union and told them a number of ways to do so. These tactics put supervisors between a rock and a hard place, forcing them into unsure legal situations and unfair ethical relations with their employees. Moreover, many supervisors support the union effort or just don't want to be involved on either side. Supervisors--themselves employees who must answer to other supervisors--should not be forced to tow the administration line, or fear that their jobs are endangered because of their opinions...
...They were the New Centurions all over again," said District Attorney John Holmes. "They were frustrated at all the legal rules, so they cut corners." A Harris County grand jury is probing the scandal, but prosecution of the narcotics officers may be difficult because so many of their targets were case-hardened criminals. Ironically, a few of the dealers bagged by the unit and now in prison may be eligible for pardons...
...optimistic appraisal winds down an important Government battle against academic segregation. As a result of a 1969 lawsuit by the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, the states were forced to submit plans to increase black enrollment and recruit more minority faculty at white institutions, and to upgrade facilities at traditionally black colleges. Otherwise, the states would face a cutoff of federal funds. Last week's ruling means that the four passing states -- Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and West Virginia -- are now free of such orders...
...real problem is a shrinking pool of able black students, a problem felt nationwide, not just in the South. Says he: "In any one of these ten states, a black student will find, if he has qualifications, many institutions eager to have him." Jenell Byrd, an attorney for the Legal Defense Fund, disagrees, insisting that segregation remains an obstacle for Southern blacks who want to attend mostly white colleges. On that point, she claims, the Federal Government gets...
...P.I.O. is accused of engaging in nothing worse than propaganda. Far from even endorsing terrorism, its chief function has been to attempt to change the subject. Its staff was entirely made up of U.S. citizens and legal residents. It was registered as a foreign agent, like other lobbying offices in Washington, but the honor of being designated as a foreign mission came unsolicited...