Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fund lost a major effort to scale down what is now One Brattle Square--home of such shops as HMV Records and Compagnie Internationale Express. In a major defeat for the Fund, the court ruled that it had no legal standing to challenge the project...
...Legal Tangles...
...Gifford stresses that the group aims for cooperation and views legal measures as a last resort...
...most part, the American public agrees: 74 percent say it's against God's will to clone a human, according to a TIME/CNN poll. The President had already taken a tentative step towards reassuring the public last week when he asked a federal commission to study the legal and ethical implications of cloning, and a House panel will take up the matter later this week. An Administration official said that the recent cloning of two rhesus monkeys, a move that inched cloning science closer to replicating humans, prompted the decision. While no human cloning projects currently receive government funds, existing...
...White House point of view, he is no improvement on Cox. He is often even more tenacious and less tolerant of anything that stands in his way. A pragmatic and informal man with a prosecutor's instinct for the kill, Jaworski is not so interested as Cox was in legal theory and lengthy staff discussions on the meaning of the law. Once his cases are sound, he wants to get them quickly to court." --March...