Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...competition will be judged by Phillip Jessup, former member of the International Court of Justice; Herbert Hansell, legal advisor to the United States State Department and Richard R. Baxter '34, Hudson Professor of Law and editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International...
Last summer, after an eight year long legal battle, a federal appeals court decided that despite a 75 year time lapse, offending landowners would either have to sell their land or do without federal water. In August, Secretary of State Cecil Andrus promptly issued guidelines for the sale of excess lands. Thousands of people turned in their names to a lottery for the newly created farms. And as late as November, Andrus was pressing Congress not to postpone enforcement...
...enemies, he is a relentless competitor whose prominence and prestige reflect the mercenary standard of Hollywood. New York-born and Yale-educated, Begelman elbowed his way into entertainment as an agent. Among his early clients was Judy Garland; in 1967 she and her husband Sid Luft brought legal action against Begelman and his then partner Freddie Fields for misdirecting part of Judy's earnings into their own pockets. Judy dropped the suit a year later, but Luft remains bitter. "The real Begelman story goes a long way back before Columbia," he says...
...Gutmann argues that there is in the U.S. nearly $400 in cash per capita floating around outside banks. With checks and credit cards, who needs all that green? His answer: "This currency lubricates a vast amount of nonreported work and employment," and the amount is as large as the legal G.N.P. of the U.S. in the middle of World...
That kind of leniency may now be changing. The NIE study, among others, calls for firm discipline and leadership by school principals. New York City announced recently that from now on teacher-assault cases will be prosecuted by the city's legal department, rather than dealt with by education officials. The Massachusetts legislature has lately stiffened penalties for assaults on teachers. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is testing an inner-city pilot program known as the "Juvenile Justice Center," in which any offense committed by a neighborhood youth will be tried by one of the center's two judges...