Word: legalism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...letter claimed that Greenberg, a white civil rights lawyer, was objectionable because of his “apparent hostility toward historically predominantly Black educational institutions, his adamant refusal to relinquish directorship of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund to a Black attorney, and his opposition to Black student associations on predominantly white campuses...
...before the Rent Control Board, petitioning for the right to make a $2.5 million renovation at the Craigie Arms apartments on Mt. Auburn St. Just two blocks away at Grendel’s Den, Harvard Law School professor Laurence H. Tribe ’62 was cooking up a legal scheme to grant the restaurant owners the liquor license they had been denied...
...providing an office, auditing and legal services, a legal address outside College rooms, and risk capital, the new institution will enable students with selling and promotion ideas to expand them greatly. A student with a good idea will be able to borrow up to $5,000 to start a new business if he can convince the Agency’s directors that it would be profitable and proper to set him up selling typewriters or toe-nail clippers. Within the rather vague limits of propriety, the opportunities for future hucksters seem boundless...
...Another round of turmoil broke out Thursday as government officials sought to explain how the 35-hour week would remain the legal reference despite draft legislation that would effectively allow companies to make their own rules on overtime. The draft being prepared by Employment Minister Xavier Betrand ignores existing agreements on between unions and French business organizations on overtime and its remuneration, leaving it to individual employers to define working hours - a move the unions decry as making employees vulnerable to bullying by their bosses...
...conservative attitudes to work - that the right remains bent on finding ways of gutting the entitlement even as they promise to preserve it. A prime example came Thursday, as Betrand sought to explain why his draft legislation would not mean the end of the 35-hour week as a legal reference. "Our logic is to say 'Does the 35 hours week work for certain companies? Then you can keep it'," Betrand said. "Does the 35-hour week block others? Then you can do more by negotiating new rules...