Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family was being "pilloried, chastised and vilified." While the senate decides whether to remove Mecham permanently from office, Secretary of State Rose Mofford, a Democrat, will serve as acting Governor. So far, Mecham has insisted that resignation is out of the question. But even if he survives his legal challenges, he must still contend with the voters...
Deaver's account of his perjury conviction in a case brought by an independent counsel draws some sympathy, but his chronicle of building a lobbying business around his old contacts shows little appreciation of the fine lines of ethics and propriety he crossed. His legal appeal is still in progress, but Behind the Scenes is a clear, if inadvertent, plea of guilt to charges of naivete...
...Foreign Minister, of "acting with impetuosity at the moment of crisis" and warned that "all of us will be losers" if the proposed union did not pass. "Mergerites" tried to block a rally that Owen had called to launch his group, but they backed down after both sides assembled legal teams...
Throughout the legal maneuverings and distorted press coverage, the McCoy trial rocks New York City as the racial incident of the decade. Of course, in the year Wolfe's book came out the city had at least two of those. Yet Wolfe's message remains clear--the public frenzy generated about the trial is the empty hysteria of an uncomprehending city. In a final touch of verisimilitude, Wolfe concludes his work with an old journalist-style fake New York Times article...
...some 500,000 of them in this wealthy land, a number slightly greater than the population of Atlanta, Denver or St. Louis. He tries to keep cool while reporting that federal support for low-income housing dropped from $28 billion to $9 billion between 1981 and 1986 and that legal evictions in New York City during one recent year totaled nearly half a million. He tries to keep cool while reporting that although New York owns more than 100,000 units of empty low- cost housing, it squanders $2,000 or more per family per month on squalid welfare hotels...