Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...town in the late 18th century, their working conditions, their attitudes, their sex lives. Himmelfarb asked how he connected his work to the major event of that period, the creation of the U.S. "He conceded," she writes, "that from his themes and sources -- parish registers, tax rolls, census reports, legal records, polling lists, land titles -- he could not 'get to,' as he said, the founding of the United States. But he denied that this was the crucial event I took it to be. What was crucial were the lives and experiences of the mass of the people. That...
After the legal challenge from the landowners, the school asked the city government to settle out of court with the owners by late September. When a settlement could not be reached in time, Emerson decided to give up and look for another new home...
Emerson College is back to square one in its search for land for a new campus after legal roadblocks persuaded it to withdraw from a long-anticipated deal with the city of Lawrence last month...
...were caught in the middle of a protracted legal battle between the city and the owners," Harold said. "We were looking at another two years or more to resolve it through the appeals process," he said...
...more troubling event was a pair of resignations from President Reagan's advisory commission on AIDS two months before that body was to issue its first report on the "medical, legal, ethical, social and economic impact" of the disease. Since its appointment in July, the 13-member commission has been beset by factional squabbling and accusations that it is heavy on conservatives and light on expertise. The last shortcoming was only intensified by the departures of its chairman, Dr. W. Eugene Mayberry, chief executive of the Mayo Clinic, and its vice chairman, Dr. Woodrow Myers Jr., Indiana's health commissioner...