Word: legalism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WASHINGTON: After weeks of watching and waiting, President Clinton is reportedly ready to take his biggest legal leap against Ken Starr. According to several news organizations, Clinton has began steps to invoke executive privilege in an attempt to edit top aide Bruce Lindsey's testimony before Starr's grand jury. White House aides would neither confirm nor deny the report...
...obvious implication: Lindsey knows too much. After Lindsey took a pass on a few too many questions while on the stand, Starr's prosecutors filed a motion to compel further testimony. Apparently unable to stomach that possibility, the White House has now locked arms with Starr in a legal skydive that will start soon in Judge Norma Holloway Johnson's chambers -- and probably end in the Supreme Court...
Whether Harvard was legally responsible for the murder is a difficult question that can only be answered in a court of law. Unfortunately for the University, however, no legal maneuvering can release Harvard from its moral responsibility for Trang Ho's death, if not Sinedu Tadesse's suicide...
UNIX has a legal and illegal system that it runs on. The carrot is an illegal sign, meaning that a computer would look at it and be unable to understand...
...outline of "some basic principles," and added the U.S. would work to ensure it resulted in "rigorous and professional" inspections. If it doesn't, at least the Annan accord gives Washington much more of the missing ingredient in this winter's noisy efforts to face down Iraq: a legal and moral basis for military action...