Word: legalization
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...welfare, the prosperity, the jobs and the care of older people depend upon a Labor majority," he told a partisan crowd of 70 people in the Lancashire town of Rawtenstall last week. Responding to Thatcher's tough stand on union abuses, he charged that Tory plans for legal reforms in industrial relations could lead to a disastrous conflict of views between the unions and government. The union leaders, whose battle with Callaghan over his proposed 5% wage ceilings led to a bitter winter of strikes and slowdowns, endorsed the message, closing ranks as they had not done for years...
Still, Strasbourg's power of gentle persuasion has produced results, from broadening trade union freedom in Belgium and Sweden to expanding legal aid in Ireland and protecting prisoners' rights in Britain and Germany. Strasbourg has helped induce the British government to loosen its immigration laws, stop mistreating prisoners in Ulster and persuade authorities on the Isle of Man to stop "birching" the bare behinds of petty criminals...
...many drawn-out legal battles, the only real winners are the lawyers. The parties get emotionally and financially drained; the lawyers get paid by the hour. But in the much ballyhooed case of Marvin vs. Marvin, the roles were, for once, reversed. Michelle Triola Marvin said she was happy because the judge awarded her $104,000 to "reeducate" herself and gain new skills. Ex-Boyfriend Lee Marvin said he was pleased too; he could have been nicked for $1.3 million if the judge had decided that Michelle Marvin was entitled to half of what he earned while the couple were...
...subsidiaries in South Africa, it would seem that a sizable share of the proceeds of any sale of assets there would be dealt with by the South African Foreign Assets Control officials as old profits requiring such a license. I understand that security rands are not currently legal tender in South Africa, and that the government bonds in question are likely to be of the 15 to 30 year category. If all this is accurate, it would seem that without drawing such attention to it as to depress foreign investor interest, the South African government has effectively rendered the withdrawal...
...only one of the six federal agencies indicted in the legal suit. As Peterson Zah, head of Navajo Legal Services, put it, "We're suing the federal government, the first one on the list is James Schlesinger, the Secretary of Energy." The plaintiffs did not choose to indict one federal agency over another since they are all related. The President and the Department of Energy (DOE) jointly make national energy policy, producing Carter's "moral equivalent to war on the energy crisis." The rest of the agencies implement this policy in whichever ways they are most capable. The Interior Department...