Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...decision, offered odd indictments of Sotomayor. "I'm sorry she's not male, so I could say what I really think," wrote Furman Bisher of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. "I haven't the time or disposition to deal with NOW [the National Organization for Women] right now." However, the legal community for the most part still has high praise for her judgment. "It was the correct ruling," says Rick Karcher, sports law professor at the Florida Coastal School of Law. "She assured that fair collective bargaining would take place under the labor laws." A few days later, a three-judge...
...National Marriage Project, cohabiting couples are at least twice as likely to break up as married couples are. Long term, notes Stephanie Coontz, a professor of history and family studies at Washington's Evergreen State College, unmarriage works only if both people are equally committed to the lack of legal commitment. If they're not, to borrow a phrase from Beyoncé: If you like it, then you should have put a ring...
...University of Colorado who is doing her dissertation on committed unmarrieds, a demographic to which she and her partner of six years belong. She and Coontz have found that many of them end up marrying because they face the same discrimination as gay couples regarding insurance, taxes and other legal issues. Having kids can also change things. David Letterman didn't say what prompted him in March to wed his partner of 23 years, who is also the mother of his 5-year-old son. I know that in our case, the plus sign on my pregnancy test...
...surprisingly, the poverty atlas has reawakened the long-raging political debate over a national minimum wage. Germany doesn't have a general legal minimum wage and only six sectors of the economy have a statutory rate - in the construction industry, for example, the minimum pay rate is between $12.50 and $18 an hour. Union leaders and politicians have been calling for a national minimum wage of $10.50 an hour, but Chancellor Merkel and her conservative party colleagues have refused to back down, saying a minimum wage could be counterproductive as jobs that pay less than the required minimum would...
...problem is when it comes to coca and cocaine, it's not just a health concern, but a legal one. Since 1961, trade of coca outside the Andean region - where people have chewed or brewed coca in tea to stave off hunger and exhaustion for centuries - has been prohibited unless the cocaine alkaloid is removed. Few companies in the world have authorization to trade in the leaf and most are pharmaceutical companies that perform this decocainizing process. The most prominent is New Jersey-based Stepan Chemical Company which has been reported to supply Coca-Cola with its narcotic-free derivative...