Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...debate kept circling back to urgent yet timeless questions. What makes a good member of society? The "higher purpose" his nation exhorts him to? Or the very specific moral and legal demands put upon him by his neighbors, his village and the ties of blood and land? In an era of megamachines and megastates, do we overrate the big in history-the Roman Empire, the papacy? If you wanted to change, really change, the world today, wouldn't you do well to "cultivate smaller gardens," the neighborhood community rather than the U.N.? The seminar concluded in stalemate...
...proposals amounted to a good deal less than met the eye. In the first place, the right of membership in labor unions will not apply to the country's 2 million "nonresident" black workers, a group that includes not only those from neighboring countries but also those whose legal residence is in the country's artificially created "tribal homelands." Moreover, no all-white unions will be required to take in black members, and no employers will be obliged to pay blacks and whites equally or to integrate company faculties if they do not care...
...violence. He just can't seem to extricate himself from the subject which he's writing about. In 1975, as a communications law expert at UCLA, Cowan served as a legal consultant to Norman Lear and the Writers Guild of America. He worked on the Guild's Family Hour--that self-imposed beast the networks adopted promising they would not air "entertainment programming inappropriate for viewing by a general family audience "between 7 and 9 p.m. Cowan tries to use the lawsuit as the background for a discussion of censorship on television and the unique problems the medium faces...
...good, admittedly, and it would be hard to argue that the University shouldn't take money from anyone of lesser moral standards than Harvard itself. Bok draws the line at accepting stolen goods, however. The only thing Bok overlooks is that there are plenty of legal ways to steal a fortune...
...university system ever to lose federal funding in a desegregation dispute with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. HEW Secretary Joseph Califano did not want voters in tobacco country to become even angrier at him (and at the President) in the wake of his antismoking campaign. Besides, a legal row with the state could slow school integration...