Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Islamic finance is a well-established institution, researchers have lacked accessible, comprehensive data on the subject until now. In 1996, the Law School's Islamic Legal Studies Program, the Business School and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies completed the Harvard Islamic Investment Study, a three-year project whose results will be published later this year...
...G.O.P.'s secret China connection. The firm has rescued Republicans in the past two elections with a $2.2 million loan guarantee, $500,000 of which the firm eventually swallowed. Though the funds originated with the company's Hong Kong parent, that transaction appears to have been embarrassing but legal, since it was funneled through an R.N.C. think tank, the National Policy Forum, rather than the party...
Tobacco execs no doubt expected some piling on. And I'm all for Philip Morris and its peers paying through the nose if they are to negotiate away their legal woes. But there are limits to how much they can cough up. A payment so large that it cripples the business defeats the purpose of their settling, although that point seems to be getting lost. Besides, no tobacco chief is going to cut his shareholders' throats. Just how much can the industry afford? Tobacco execs have been mum on the subject. It was the antitobacco side that floated $300 billion...
...were beginning to trickle away. Even the ambassador's wife had decided to leave the combination lean-to and trailer that was designated the "embassy compound." Thus, shortly after 4 p.m. on Saturday, with barely the pretense of extraterritoriality, Rick McLaren, self-declared "ambassador, consul-general and chief foreign legal officer" of the separatist Republic of Texas, ended his 6 1/2-day standoff against America, laid down 10 rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, and agreed to a cease-fire. In a nod to protocol, the plenipotentiaries who negotiated the agreement--otherwise known as the Texas Rangers--watched...
Towards the end of her talk, Harbury read from many U.S. government documents obtained under the Freedom of Information Act and discussed the legal implications of her case using hypothetical situations and rhetorical questions...