Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appointment comes at a time when officials from Harvard and Radcliffe are completing the legal merger agreement that will join the two institutions. The legal document was originally expected by July 1. Now, Armini estimates, it will be completed sometime this month and go into effect during the fall...
...appointment comes at a time when officials from Harvard and Radcliffe are completing the legal merger agreement that will join the two institutions. The legal document was originally expected by July 1. Now, Armini estimates, it will be completed sometime this month and go into effect during the fall...
...Bill Clinton, for one, is shocked and appalled that those bad men would try to do such a thing. After all, he?s not keeping the surplus to pay off his Paula Jones legal bills; he?s just reinvesting it. "The Senate is about to make a pivotal choice: whether to move forward with a sound strategy that led us to this point, or to return to the reckless policies that threw our nation into stagnation and economic decline," boomed the president on Thursday. That last part, of course, is a canard. The last big tax cut was the Reagan...
...Jones legal team, whose deposition of the President set off the entire impeachment avalanche, had asked for nearly $500,000. But Judge Wright said the sanctions were "not imposed to punish" but rather to compensate for actual loss. Although Clinton?s lawyers said the penalty should be much lower, on the order of $33,737, they accepted the judge's ruling. "Judge Wright has always made clear that if Clinton wanted to litigate her contempt findings, he risked opening up a whole can of worms," says TIME magazine White House correspondent Jay Branegan. No one at the White House likes...
...they'd all gone to Andover together. And you were sick to death of that wretched dog. You were starting to miss the buccaneering days of the Reagan Administration, during which TIME once devoted several pages to mug shots of all the Reagan officials who'd had ethical or legal charges leveled against them--a layout that looked like the life insurance-company ads congratulating the leading salesmen of the tristate area. Now, after 6 1/2 years of Clinton, you're nostalgic for those Protestant gentlemen of the Bush era who never came near getting indicted. The vision of Brent...