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Word: legalism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sometimes," President Bill Clinton mused on Friday afternoon, "there is a difference between what is legal and what ought to be done." And with that he offered a guided tour of Washington's favorite hideaway--the fertile, foggy valley that lies somewhere between what is wrong and what is illegal. You don't have to be a lawyer to get in, but it helps to think like...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEGAL TENDER | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

...what makes last week's spectacle truly rich is that the President doesn't have to make excuses for Ryan or Williams. And as a lawyer, he doesn't even have to parse the legal delicacies of their actions. Based on what has come out so far, nothing they did that day or the next in the White House appears to have broken the law. What's more, when Vice President Al Gore sat in his office calling up businessmen whose careers and companies depended in part on decisions the White House could make, urging them to support his party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEGAL TENDER | 3/17/1997 | See Source »

Since Torricelli's revelation, Harbury has been pursuing Everardo's case on several legal fronts, Pertierra said...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Harbury Writes Expose | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

Jennifer Harbury is currently practicing law part time for Texas Rural Legal Aid in Weslaco, Tex., Pertierra said...

Author: By Curtis R. Chong, | Title: Harbury Writes Expose | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

...agreement will attest. And democracy? Vast tracts of "public" land in Israel are owned by the Jewish National Fund, whose assets exist to benefit "persons of Jewish religion, race or origin." The Jewish Agency, which has a similar mandate, controls much of the development budget: through a variety of legal ruses, state benefits to large families have been tailored largely to exclude Israel's Arab citizens. Israel is not a democracy for all of its citizens (which is not even to talk of the Palestinians in the occupied territories, ruled without representation for decades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Oslo Accords Hurt Palestinians, Not Israelis | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

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