Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bork's supporters generally felt that he helped his case by coming across as open to change. Contended Bruce Fein, a legal scholar at the conservative Heritage Foundation: "Open-minded people frequently change their minds. Constitutional jurisprudence is not first-grade arithmetic...
Despite Bork's gruff but courteous style and ability to turn the hearings into a legal seminar, the "confirmation conversion" issue could keep him from winning Senate approval. The three swing men -- Republican Specter and Democrats DeConcini and Howell Heflin of Alabama -- expressed reservations about Bork's ever changing views. "There are those who raise the issue that your changing of your position," Heflin told Bork, "came only at a time when a carrot was being dangled before your eyes." Replied Bork: "I can assure you that that's not the way I operate...
...peculiar timing of the barrage of Biden brickbats accidental? The Des Moines Register reported that an unidentified campaign had circulated an "attack video" linking Kinnock's and Biden's rhetoric. A reporter for a Florida legal newspaper, the Miami Review, was also tipped off last week about the law school plagiarism incident and alerted a sister publication, Washington's Legal Times. In trying to confirm the information, reporters for the paper talked to a variety of Washington political insiders, including an adviser to the Richard Gephardt campaign...
Stability was further shattered by the assassination on Saturday of Leandro Alejandro, 27, leader of Bayan, perhaps the largest legal alliance of the Philippine left. Alejandro was shot at point-blank range by unidentified gunmen outside Bayan headquarters just two days before he was scheduled to lead an antigovernment rally. Summing up the air of unrest, Businessman Antonio Gatmaitan said, "Remember the old curse, 'May you live in interesting times'? I think this...
...payments owed to Western lenders. Angered by relentlessly declining living standards, more than 120,000 workers have mounted a total of 900 strikes since February. In an unusually frank interview after the scandal surfaced, Prime Minister Mikulic conceded, "We do not have a proper financial system, and our legal system doesn't function...