Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...point was not of jurisdiction, but of the decision itself. Once the Southern states rights defense was laid bare as a defense of racism, it collapsed. Those people who refused to view the issue as a matter of race, such as Bork, insisted that it was merely a cold legal question of jurisidiction. They say they did not realize how things would turn out, that in retrospect they would have spoken differently...
These sports, recreational perversions of the hard-work ethic, invariably invite fighting; intimidation is built into the rules. It is hardly surpassing that what's legal during game-time is condoned during off-time. Athletes are encouraged to be just as physical when the ball or puck is not in play as when...
Baseball players have begun to learn from their fellow athletes. The home run is no longer enough, nor is the strikeout. Instead, an almost extra-legal show of intimidation is needed...
...accident was the second potentially disastrous one to involve PBH in as many weeks. On July 22 a PBH van flipped over a Mass. Turnpike guardrail while filled to nearly double legal capacity with 26 children participating in a different program...
...central protagonists of the PTL turmoil, meanwhile, continued to parade their opulent life-styles. The couple breezed into San Francisco on July 11 as guests of their flamboyant tort lawyer, Melvin Belli, who is now laying the legal groundwork in his effort to have Bakker reinstated at PTL. During their week-long stay, the Bakkers were billeted on Belli's 105-ft. ocean-going yacht, The Adequate Reward, and were taken to parties, dinners and exclusive stores by Belli's wife Lia. Tammy enjoyed a makeover at Lia's favorite hair salon, 77 Maiden Lane...