Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...immigration law provides that people who can prove they came to the U.S. illegally before January 1, 1982, can gain legal status, including legitimate work permits...
INSTEAD THEY have managed to do just about everything they can to avoid talking politics. The senators, and various legal scholars and academics who come before the committee, discuss the nature of Bork's "judicial philosophy," how he's out of the mainstream or not out of the mainstream and what it he will be like if he's on the court...
...children living in the U.S., regardless of their legal status, have the right to public education, as a result of the 1978 Supreme Court case Phyler...
What sometimes gets lost in the midst of all this legal jargon is that Bork is on the wrong side of the single most important social issue dividing people in this country today--the right to reproductive freedom. Bork has said that he opposes abortion and that he considers the famed Roe v. Wade decision ill-reasoned. These statements are very important because the court is at its most powerful when setting the social policy of the country...
Since the Soviet leader introduced a 1985program to cut down on drinking, legal drinking inthe U.S.S.R. has decreased by about 50 percentHowever, illegal drinking--which constitutes 25percent of the nation's alcohol problem--hasincreased by 40 percent, according to Powell...