Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...book enumerates what is legal and illegal for supervisors to say to their employees about the union drive. While supervisors are prohibited from asking their employees. "Was that a union organizer you were speaking with?" the book contends they can say "I am troubled by the tactics of certain union organizers. In some cases they seem to me to be pressuring and harassing support staff...
Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin, questioned about the beating policy during debate in parliament, said the orders to use force were necessary and "to the best of my knowledge and judgment, are legal...
Moreover, the University statement which refutes the existence of a quota raises a much broader issue than that of racial discrimination. Preference to legacies and to athletes lie within the University's legal rights as a corporation, but conflict with the University's responsiblities as a world leader in education. The selfishness of persons who, like David Yu, defend the "legacy" policy (February 12) is appalling. "As a future alumnus," he defends the policy, but did he support it as an applicant four years ago? University favoritism to "legacies" perpetuates, even validates, an attitude like Yu's: one does...
...Alexander of the University of Southern California, would like to see the state caps eliminated. "They're ridiculously low," he says, "and they lead to subterfuge." All too often, in fact, the result is an amoral minuet in which the end (the White House) justifies all sorts of quasi-legal chicanery. "There is retail chiseling, like renting a car in Massachusetts and driving it to New Hampshire," explains a top Republican campaign staffer. "And then there is wholesale blowing off of the limits -- spend now and pay the fine later...
...growing commercialism in skiing. It didn't work. Skiers today are the most heavily sponsored of all Winter Olympians. Zurbriggen, a sporting-goods store on skis, wears seven of his products in action, from goggles to boots. His estimated 1987 take, approaching $1 million, was paid through a perfectly legal Swiss team trust fund. If Brundage weren't dead, this would kill...