Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...paradigms of understanding health and the body? How do we develop a set of rigorous, systematic standards to evaluate the efficacy of alternative medicine? What will be the economic implications of the rapidly growing alternative medical market on traditional medicine and public spending on health? How do we resolve legal issues of licensure and malpractice liability in the current proliferation of alternative medical practices and practitioners...
...team will enforce the legal drinking age. Students will probably have to present ID to gain access to an enclosed area where they will remain with their drinks...
...year before the law changed. At Texas A&M admissions of black students fell 3%, and those of Hispanic students went down 7%. "We expected a significant increase in minority numbers, and that did not happen," concedes Al Kauffman, a senior lawyer with the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund, who helped draft the law. A notable exception: at UT Austin the chief beneficiaries of the new law seem to be Asian students, whose admissions under the 10% Plan rose a whopping 16% in the past two years...
...Deters, the young Hamilton County prosecutor who scored the indictment against Flynt last Tuesday, thinks he knows an obscene film when he sees one. "There's no pretense of a plot here; there's not even any music," he says. Citing one of Flynt's legal arguments that these videos are used as marital aids, he laughs and says: "Couples use these as marital aids? Yeah, right. Bring them in. Because we'd like to ask them some questions...
...Vegas Convention Center sidewalk, whose own three-day counterconvention, dubbed "Fear and Transmitting," took place in a rundown Unitarian Fellowship hall across town and was catered by Food Not Bombs, a group that collects unused groceries from supermarkets and restaurants to be served to the homeless. Workshops on legal defenses against FCC equipment seizures and on how to send programs over the Internet drew guerrilla broadcasters from eight Western and Midwestern states--mirroring a similar East Coast conference held in Philadelphia a week earlier...