Word: legalism
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...acquisition of FleetBoston Financial, after the executive turned down the post of head of the bank's card division. Lewis even had a press release drafted announcing Moynihan's departure. The bank's board of directors, however, convinced Lewis to keep Moynihan, who was made the bank's chief legal officer and then the head of its retail operations before becoming CEO. (See the top 10 bankruptcies...
Jonathan M.L. Rosenthal ’13, SJSF’s statewide communications coordinator, said that the organizers wanted to keep this sleep-out “completely legal,” unlike their previous events held last semester on Boston Common, which has a strict curfew. Rosenthal said that when the organizers realized that Cambridge Common also has a curfew they asked the City Council to grant an exemption...
...curb illegal immigration by giving employers the power to quickly and accurately determine who is eligible to work. "If you say [illegal immigrants] can't get a job when they come here, you'll stop it," Schumer told the Wall Street Journal. Proponents also hope legal hiring will be easier for employers if there's a single go-to document instead of the 26 that new employees can currently use to show they're authorized to work...
...like Indian, are listed as races. (Ironically, part of the problem is that Arab immigrants a century ago petitioned the Federal Government to be categorized as white to avoid discrimination. Today, Arab-American leaders realize how much that move has cost their community in terms of federal aid and legal clout...
...disappearance last year provoked high-level concerns, and U.S. and European diplomats raised his case with Chinese authorities. Earlier this month an international legal team filed a petition on Gao's behalf with the U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. While his supporters applaud the latest news of his condition, they say far too much is still unknown...