Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimates of the rate base. It has introduced legislation to include temporary employment agencies under existing state regulations for regular agencies, and has pressured the state secretary to stop illegal lobbying by agencies opposed to the bill. It has also trained representatives of 23 universities in organizing skills, legal rights and affirmative action...
Initially 9to5 works indirectly, publicizing the issues, hoping to trigger an impulse to organize from within. Once a woman has taken the step of contacting 9to5, the staff offers free legal counseling and will help her plan strategy. Usually they look into employment practices throughout her particular industry in Boston, then confront management--and, if necessary, bring legal proceedings against the company. Or they may call for public hearings and pressure government agencies to enforce anti-discrimination laws and affirmative action requirements...
...December a conference in the nation's capital on regulations in plain English drew 800 participants, most of them Government employees. "Five years ago," said Legal Consultant James Minor, a member of the American Bar Association's committee on legal drafting, "we could have offered solid-gold Cadillacs as door prizes and not attracted 25 people." Wayne Granquist, a Carter appointee in the Office of Management and Budget, called attention to the plight of citizens confronted with bad writing. Until recently, applicants for a Citizens Band radio license were advised: "Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this...
...result, the project stirred controversy as hot and heavy as a tabas-coed gumbo. However, as silver-haired Mayor Moon Landrieu, one of the dome's founding fathers, points out, in terminable legal challenges and investigations failed to produce a single indictment or even a documented charge of hanky-panky (though in Huey Long country it is hard to believe some politicians did not profit, at least indirectly, from the project). However, Le Maire insists, "Only politicians could have put this thing together. It could never have been built by a blue ribbon commission. Sure, we made mistakes...
DIVORCED. George C. Wallace, 58, Governor of Alabama, and Cornelia Wallace, 38; on their seventh wedding anniversary; in Montgomery. After the Governor sued for a no-fault divorce last September, Cornelia countersued on grounds of "physical cruelty and actual violence." The legal battle promised to be lurid, but minutes before the trial was to begin, an out-of-court agreement was announced, giving Cornelia a lump sum of $75,000 in alimony, some lake property and household appliances...