Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...death of his girlfriend, whom he'd helped get an illegal abortion at the hands of a "back-alley butcher." Powell was moved by the youth's dilemma--and by the injustice and risk that a more affluent couple could avoid by going to a state where abortions were legal. Though the consummate judge, Powell dealt with people as they were, not just as clients or employees or adversaries. He listened to all sides; he understood the theoretical as well as the practical; he knew that sometimes how one reached a decision was as important as the decision itself...
...bias in employment every bit as illegal as race or sex discrimination? Officially, yes, and McElyea briefly considered his legal options. But he knew only too well what forbidding odds he would face in a lawsuit. He had defended the company against many age-discrimination suits and beaten every one. "There is real bias out there," says McElyea, but it is hard to prove...
...stellar performance reviews during his 12 years with the firm) and that he had one day to clean out his office. The fired executive found out later that the woman was head of the agency's human-resources department. He presumes she was there so that in any ensuing legal action the company would have two witnesses to what was said...
...jobs, though, are hardly what many older workers would want on a permanent basis. Lawyer McElyea, for example, got a part-time job through Kelly doing legal work for a telemarketer on an hourly basis with no benefits. It was O.K. as a stop-gap, he says, but "a real dead...
...charges against Microsoft's demand that the whole antitrust case be thrown out of court. Is there enough beef here, or is the government just scrambling to fill the gap left by the recent appeals court ruling -- which decided that tying Internet Explorer to Windows was a legal integration? Well, none of the allegations are really surprising -- bullying Real Networks, Intuit and Apple are all par for the course, while there isn't a nerd alive who doesn't know what Microsoft thinks of Sun. What is new is how close the feds place Gates to the center...