Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...surface, Clark's move seems innocuous enough. Instead of a full-time advisor, students interested in pursuing public service legal careers must now consult the director of career services and an as-yet-unnamed placement advisor. The reason, according to Clark, was a simple matter of budget-cutting...
Congress has passed legislation requiring the administration to destroy old chemical weapons by 1997 as more advanced weapons are stockpiled. Asked about any connection between Bush's proposal and the legal mandate to destroy a large percentage of such weapons, the White House official said that whether or not the new plan was "making a virtue of necessity it is certainly part of a major effort and a serious effort...
...ordinance, passed in 1979, prohibited tenants in rent-controlled housing from purchasing their apartments. Walsh agreed to postpone the measure pending a legal opinion from Higley...
...lawsuit is a nuisance that only delays his staff from working on a plan to save the Everglades. Moreover, the suit is costing a fortune in both state and federal funds. Beyond the Justice Department's considerable expenses, the water district's board has spent $980,000 on legal fees and expects to dole out at least $175,000 more a month. Yet a majority of board members seem as recalcitrant as the farmers. "If ((Lehtinen)) wants to fight, let's go ahead," said board member Doran Jason at one meeting. "There has to be a change," counters Nathaniel...
East German media also raged against Hungary, accusing it of "trading human lives for pieces of silver," a pointed suggestion that Hungary had swapped the refugees for hard West German currency. Two days after the border was thrown open, East Germany charged that Hungary was in "clear violation of legal treaties" and demanded that it stop letting the refugees through. Budapest angrily dismissed the charges and asserted that it was not willing to become a "refugee camp" for East Germany's problem. Hungarian Foreign Minister Gyula Horn rejected the charges of payments from West Germany as "unacceptable and insulting," then...