Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...article was also in error when it suggested that I had been a drug dealer. Quite the reverse, I was a nationally respected drug educator, whose curricula materials were used in schools throughout the country, by the Armed Services and the Smithsonian Institution. My pharmaceutical firm extracts the legal drug THC from marijuana plants processed legally abroad...
ALTHOUGH he is a highly respected corporate law scholar, Clark is probably better known on campus for his caustic attacks on the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement. Over the last five years, Clark led the factions that have denied tenure to three CLS adherents, speaking out against them at every opportunity. While many of his right-wing colleagues kept their criticism "off the record," Clark continued his attacks in the national press...
...staff has striven for years to streamline the process and has made remarkable progress with their efforts. In addition, the reserves staff has in recent years rededicated itself to strict adherence to the copyright protection act which, admittedly, causes more paperwork and headaches, but is, after all, a legal and moral necessity...
...scoring four goals in a span of less than five minutes, although two of them were called back. A goal at 21 seconds into the period was disallowed because the officials ruled that Tri-Captain Brita Lind kicked the puck. Lind wasted no time griping, however. She scored a legal goal two minutes later off a deflection of freshman Bev Stickles' shot...
Things are somewhat better in Hastings' staging of When We Are Married, J.B. Priestley's satire of the Yorkshire bourgeoisie circa 1908. The premise: three long-married couples discover that their wedlock may not be legal and suddenly are able to reconsider, with the wisdom of hindsight, the choices of youth. Two browbeaten wives and one henpecked husband toy with ditching their spouses, a notion that is faintly feminist for its time. Fittingly, the best performances come from Fredi Olster and Joy Carlin as the resentful wives and the delightful Ruth Kobart as a domineering dragon. Randall...