Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MacDonald insisted he was innocent of charges raised during recent hearings of the Senate Select Committee on Indian Affairs, and pleaded with the 88- member Navajo council to let him retain his salary and to give him legal help as he fights to clear his name. When the council refused to grant him these conditions, MacDonald vowed that he would not vacate his elective position after all. The council then voted to place MacDonald on indefinite leave, with pay. The Navajos had never before questioned the conduct of one of their chairmen, assuming each had only the best interests...
...sensible, efficient program would save billions of dollars in two ways. It would, first, all but eliminate sales costs and, second, all but eliminate legal fees...
...newspapers, but to see someone the newspapers have said is on the lam definitely has a touch of magic to it." The young apprentice also learns that "I had caught on with the great Dutch Schultz in his decline of empire, he was losing control." The mobster's legal problems are mounting, his bribe money is no longer good in New York City, and gentlemen competitors of Italian ancestry -- Schultz calls them "dago scungili" -- are moving in on his operations. Dreadful events threaten; all of them occur, and then some...
...claiming responsibility for Finucane's death, the Ulster Freedom Fighters, an outlawed Protestant group, declared that the lawyer was "an officer in the I.R.A.," a charge his family denied. Finucane represented the I.R.A.'s political wing, Sinn Fein, in its successful battle to win legal clearance to challenge the British government's ban on broadcasts by the I.R.A. and other extremist groups. His brother Dermot, 28, was sentenced in 1982 to 18 years on a terrorist charge but escaped in a mass I.R.A. breakout from Ulster's Maze Prison...
...region's long record of sectarian violence, this was the first attack to claim the life of a lawyer. Finucane's murder sent shock waves through Northern Ireland's 1,450-member legal fraternity as Protestant and Catholic lawyers alike feared that they too could become terrorist targets...