Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...coalition of students formed this fall to support a Cambridge movement to grant legal immigrants who have resided in the city for at least 30 days the right to vote in School Committee elections...
...many others, including Julian Garmony, the Foreign Secretary, who is also present at the service. Linley and Halliday, unnerved by Molly's suffering before she died, make a pact. If one of them develops symptoms that could suddenly leave him helpless, the other will secure, without risking legal repercussions, the means for euthanasia. Apparently, that may be possible in Amsterdam...
...they broke Joey's leg during recess; Joey was provoking them, and they were just defending themselves, wouldn't you do the same thing? Or that it wasn't they who accepted campaign funds illegally, that they have no idea where that money came from, that it's perfectly legal, just look at this thousand-page brief, see? Or that they didn't really lie under oath. Or that they didn't inhale...
...Harry Bresky, financial statements filed in the Kahn legal case show that in 1991 he reported a net worth of $84 million. That was back when Seaboard stock was less than half its present value. Like many millionaires, Bresky also enjoyed a comparatively low federal tax rate. On his 1990 U.S. income tax return, he reported adjusted gross income of $2.243 million and paid $503,000 in federal income and Social Security taxes. His effective overall tax rate worked out to 22.4%--just a few percentage points above the 16.8% rate paid by families earning $35,000 a year...
There can be problems with this approach, however. For one thing, the Food and Drug Administration has approved antidepressants for only adult use. It's perfectly legal for doctors to make them available to children, but such "off-label" prescribing can be tricky. When a drug is tested and a dosage is set for an adult body, the same medication given to a person half the size can have unexpected effects. Antidepressants can lead to agitation and nervousness in anyone; in children, they may trigger full-blown manic episodes...