Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...collaboration with the Boston Medical Center Pediatric Department, the organization was founded to help understand and relieve the social, economic, political and legal forces acting on children's health status, members said...
...enrolled in a doctoral program in legal history. It was then that his involvement with Mather House began...
...GORE Tick-tock, tick-tock. Reno had no choice. Still, she's getting closer. Al phones home for legal help...
...such blatant discrimination be legal? The critical distinction that the courts have made is the idea of "bona fide occupational qualification." For example, directors can specify women to play women's parts in plays or movies, and positions as guards in high-security prisons can preclude women. Notes Doug Huron, a leading labor lawyer in Washington: "Courts have made very few exceptions in sex-discrimination cases, but the Hooters settlement would appear...
...winning bid of $8.4 million was financed partly by McDonald's and Disney. DIED. JEROME LEMELSON, 74, prolific inventor whose more than 500 patents include the bar-code scanning technology used by stores and factories around the world; of liver cancer; in Los Angeles. He spent years in legal battles with corporations over his patents, won millions in settlements, and used the money to endow a $500,000 annual prize for inventors...