Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...yielding an estimated $70 million a year. But, unlike the other natural products of the valley, it is illegal. The plant is sinsemillas (Spanish for seedless), a highly cultivated strain of marijuana that has recently found favor with U.S. pot smokers. It thrives in the fertile soil and relaxed legal atmosphere of southern Oregon...
...income families in particular, the programs of HEW and its complementary state agencies help make life normal, if not exactly comfortable. The Palmers are a hypothetical, but typical low-income family in an urban setting that is receiving its legal share of HEW's substantial offerings. Paul Palmer, 45, and his wife, Jane, 40, live in Boston with their four children. In addition, Jane's mother and Paul's father are part of the family...
Radcliffe also had to show "without embarassing Harvard" that its students were unfairly disadvantaged in the work-study program because of the legal technicalities of the "non-merger merger" between Harvard and Radcliffe. Finally, administrators mentioned to federal officials that Radcliffe students, in light of all the circumstances surrounding the work-study program, might have grounds for a class-action suit charging unlawful discrimination on the basis of sex--a suit that would embarass Harvard, Radcliffe, and the government. These arguments were enough for the Office of Education to dredge up an old regulation they decided applied to Harvard...
...protesting some aspect of a House policy that the student feels he or she can't attack alone. Sometimes they need financial help, or advice on a personal matter. Occasionally, Epps has summoned the student on a disciplinary matter. Epps is frequently the liaison between Harvard and Cambridge on legal issues affecting a student, whether it be a parking ticket scofflaw or an assault victim...
...away. As Nolen explains, Edelin was never on trial for performing the operation itself. The abortion, performed during the "open season" after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973 decision striking down old statutes and before the Massachusetts legislature's adoption of new laws in 1974, was demonstrably legal. Edelin was accused of causing death. Testimony before the grand jury that handed up the indictment, and during the trial, raised the question of whether the 20-to 24-week-old fetus might not have been legally alive after Edelin performed the hysterotomy, or "mini-caesarean section," that terminated...