Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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David M. Bailey, 22, was arrested around 2 a.m. Saturday by Harvard Police. A Cambridge District Court judge released Bailey yesterday without a legal finding and fined him $75 for court fees, a clerk said, clearing Bailey of any criminal wrongdoing...
...discourage sabotage by hackers, users must pledge to employ PEN for only legal purposes before they are allowed access to the system. "We expect to get a lot of the same questions we're getting now," says Assistant City Manager Lynne Barrette. " 'What's the status of a particular issue? To whom do I complain about the tree trimming on my street?' -- only via the computer...
Others contended that many refugees have simply gone underground. Said E.J. Flynn, an attorney for Proyecto Libertad, a legal-aid organization: "What will happen now is they will take their chances going north alone, without documents, or pay people to help them...
...bear as a people. In every instance, a shift in appellation coincided with a new stage in the struggle for equality. In the years after the Civil War, the terms black and negro, favored by slaveholders gave way to the gentler designation colored. Early in this century, when the legal battle against Jim Crow laws was being pressed by the N.A.A.C.P., Negro returned, but with a respectful uppercase N. That gave way to black during the militant days of sit-ins and mass demonstrations during the 1960s. Blunt, proud and unequivocal, black embodied the sheer racial confidence that the civil...
...NRDC report goes on to charge that the Government is failing to protect youngsters adequately from such dangers. It points out that current legal limits for pesticide residues, set by the EPA, are based on the consumption patterns and physiology of adults. Children eat a great deal more food for their body weight than adults. They also consume more fruit, which makes up an estimated 34% of preschoolers' diets, in contrast to 20% for adults'. Youngsters eat six times as many grapes, seven times as many apples and seven times as much applesauce as their parents. The typical preschooler drinks...