Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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They said the boycott was a peaceful, legal attempt to force communist authorities to meet with them and discuss demands for a free press, an end to official corruption and other reforms...
...laundering affair has focused attention on the need for other Swiss banking reforms. One possible target: the absence of requirements for full, consolidated financial statements. Most Swiss banks use evasive but perfectly legal bookkeeping that eliminates disclosures about the performance of parts of their holdings. What remains to be seen is how vigorously the banks will defend themselves against the reform wave and whether their reputation for probity and prudence will survive the fray...
...rare legal move against Jewish settlers, an Israeli court last week indicted one of their leaders, Rabbi Moshe Levinger, 54, for manslaughter. The court charged that the Israeli shot an Arab shopkeeper to death and wounded another in the city of Hebron last fall, after Palestinians stoned his car. The indictment stunned Levinger's followers, who have asserted their right to protect themselves with guns...
THIS Hammarabian legal system need not be applied solely at a national level. For example, Harvard students were frustrated this spring because Core professors lotteried their courses at the last moment. They felt powerless because University rules permitted such unfair treatment...
...those morally questionable activities that are technically legal, we are left with a wholly unsatisfactory solution. We could pursue complete ethical purity in economic affairs. But such a course is entirely impractical. The market seldom rewards moral uprightness. Alternatively, we can attempt to distinguish among varying degrees of ethical corruption and weigh them against financial gain, leaving the individual's greed as the final arbiter...