Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Throughout the occupation, Bok, Steiner and other officials followed a policy of holding, but not exercising, a legal right to use police to remove the protesters by force...
Although the Limited is the only legal target to date, other retailers are being challenged on their import records. Chinese dissident Harry Wu made a dramatic appearance at K Mart's annual meeting in Detroit to tell chairman Floyd Hall that the big discounter purchased 73 tons of men's rainwear from China Tiancheng, a company owned by the People's Liberation Army, instrument of the 1989 massacre in Tiananmen Square. Faced with a similar allegation several years ago, K Mart issued a categorical denial. This time the retailer promised to investigate and sever connections to the company...
...mass retailers such as the Limited and K Mart, access to cheap (and legal) imported goods is vital to survival in a fiercely competitive industry. The Limited has announced no plans to change its sourcing, and will begin mounting its legal defense in early June. In all likelihood the company is waiting for the issue to fade, figuring that consumers will keep their eyes fixed on the lingerie and not the label...
...from her chain of command, she wasn't about to crash. That Wednesday, her mother Mary and brother Don had done the Today show, and her Uncle John had gone on Good Morning America "to convey our story." The family had built a Website to solicit contributions for her legal-defense fund and invite readers to E-mail Congress or Kelly with their support. The letters, phone calls and editorials were running heavily in her favor; politicians from both sides of the aisle were blasting the Air Force for conducting a witch-hunt. Senate majority leader Trent Lott, no softy...
...fictitious band name, he made an album in 1973 called Blue Ridge Rangers (Fantasy) on which he sang heavy doses of country, bluegrass and R. and B. and played every instrument. He released a superb solo album under his own name two years later but got entangled in protracted legal bloodletting with the head of his former label, Saul Zaentz (who is also the much Oscared producer of One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest and The English Patient). It's a fight that continues to this day. "I haven't been paid properly in 17 years," Fogerty says. "That...