Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Iran?s reform movement may have taken an eight-count, but it could still win on points. Though student protesters have been driven back onto campus to pursue "legal and democratic" channels to express their grievances, the reform program of President Mohammed Khatami ? which the students wholeheartedly, if impatiently, support -- remains the key threat to the power of the mullahs. For political and economic reasons, they can?t afford to completely close down the troublesome reformer...
...sleek and powerful cruise line industry has run into very choppy American legal waters. On Wednesday, Attorney General Janet Reno announced that Royal Caribbean Cruises, the world?s second largest cruise company, had agreed to pay a record $18 million in fines as part of a guilty plea to 21 felony counts of dumping waste oil and hazardous chemicals from its ships. The company "polluted the very environment on which its business relies," said Reno. "They dumped everywhere: at sea, in port, at sensitive environmental areas." The fines are the stiffest ever to be levied on a cruise line...
...This is yet another example of how cruise lines, who fly under foreign flags, are finally coming under U.S. legal scrutiny," says TIME Washington correspondent Viveca Novak. This week?s shot across the industry?s bow comes on top of a private lawsuit that last week torpedoed an embarrassing hole into Carnival, the number one cruise line. In court papers stemming from a rape complaint filed by a former crew member, Carnival, according to the New York Times, acknowledged that its crew members had been accused of sexually assaulting passengers and other staffers 62 times since 1993, prompting the company...
...court awarded $32.8 million to another cancer victim in March. The latest cases suggest the public may no longer be buying the industry's defenses. When a tobacco executive at the Florida trial tried to deny that cigarettes are harmful, one juror could be seen rolling her eyes. A legal system that for decades favored the cigarette companies may be kicking the habit...
MARRIAGE ANNULLED. Between former model JERRY HALL and senescent rocker MICK JAGGER. Jagger's legal tack--that their Hindu wedding on Bali nine years ago was not binding--didn't prevent his ceding to Hall a sum London tabloids put at $15.5 million. The couple, who have four children, reached a settlement the day their divorce trial was to start...