Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clancy says the women's center would be a place survivors could go for "someone to give them a hug and say, 'I care about you. Here's a place where you can sleep. Here are some resources and I can be a legal advocate if you want...
...Clancy says the women's center would be a place survivors could go for "someone to give them a hug and say, 'I care about you. Here's a place where you can sleep. Here are some resources and I can be a legal advocate if you want...
...Simpson says the offer to appear in the television commercials interested him because the ads are aimed at minorities, who often don't have enough money or connections to get first-class attorneys. "The main thing I have learned is you can't walk into a courtroom without competent legal representation," Simpson told the Associated Press. The ads have yet to appear, but Justice Media plans to sell them to participating law firms across the U.S., which can then televise them in their areas. Simpson says he was reimbursed only for his expenses, meaning he will need to find some...
...more than a decade, Steptoe and Edwards performed dozens of in-vitro experiments--paid for in part by Steptoe's earnings from legal abortions--but none of the 30 or so pregnancies lasted more than 10 weeks. Finally, the pair decided that instead of waiting four or more days while the fertilized egg underwent about 100 divisions, they would implant it after just 2 1/2 days, at the eight-cell stage. The daring strategy worked--and just short of nine months later, while all the world seemed to be watching, Steptoe delivered Baby Brown by caesarean section...
...there ensued a legal battle over who invented television. RCA's lawyers contended that Zworykin's 1923 patent had priority over any of Farnsworth's patents, including the one for his Image Dissector. RCA's case was not strong, since it could produce no evidence that in 1923 Zworykin had produced an operable television transmitter. Moreover, Farnsworth's old teacher, Tolman, not only testified that Farnsworth had conceived the idea when he was a high school student, but also produced the original sketch of an electronic tube that Farnsworth had drawn for him at that time. The sketch was almost...