Word: legalizes
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...inheritance, which was cited as a possible motive for the murders, there is no way to stop Shaddy from getting his share since he was not convicted of a felony. But Shaddy probably will not get to keep much of his new wealth. His legal fees are running more than $60,000, and there are doctors' bills and sizable payments to be made for the several court proceedings since his two trials. There will be just about enough left for him to attend Washburn University in Topeka to study political science...
More than 1 million legal abortions now take place in the U.S. every year-six times as many as in 1970. The fight against this increase has also increased, ranging from congressional oratory to outbreaks of fire bombing in such cities as Omaha, Cleveland and Columbus. In most abortion clinics, though, there is only minor harassment as a steady procession of anxious women arrive to undergo what some doctors call "the procedure. "TIME Reporter-Researcher Barbara Dolan covered one woman's visit to a Manhattan clinic and filed this report...
...terrorists' next message, the country seemed to have recovered its nerve after the initial shock of the kidnaping and the murder of Moro's five bodyguards. The trial in Turin of 15 Red Brigades defendants resumed as scheduled, and the government intensified its effort to strengthen its legal recourses against terrorism. Following new measures introduced the week before-life imprisonment for kidnap-murder and wider discretionary powers for police-the Justice Ministry announced a $94 million plan aimed at improving the judicial system and prison facilities...
...befits a society of laws, has always been a litigious land. But the past quarter-century has brought a particularly explosive burst of growth in the legal industry. Since the mid-1950s the courts have discovered a spate of new constitutional rights, protections and entitlements for whole groups of people?for example, disenfranchised voters, women, Latins, prisoners, children, mental patients. Countless others, emboldened by seven-figure awards in personal injury suits, have gone to court in quest of what San Francisco Defense Lawyer Scott Conley sardonically calls the "pot of gold at the end of every whiplash." At the same...
Burger's blast is hyperbolic fire for effect, but there is real and widespread cause for concern in the orgiastic growth of laws and lawyers. Says Laurence Silberman, a former U.S. Deputy Attorney General who is now counsel to the Wall Street law firm Dewey Ballantine: "The legal process, because of its unbridled growth, has become a cancer which threatens the vitality of our forms of capitalism and democracy." Others wonder whether the rule of law will prevail in the U.S., or the rule of lawyers...