Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Some bankers suggest that Lance's overdrafts violated the Federal Reserve Board's Regulation O, which limits borrowing by officers from their own banks to maximums of $30,000 for a home mortgage, $10,000 for educational expenses and $5,000 for other purposes. Even if legal, declared a Wall Street banker, the overdrafts were "a misuse of a portion of corporate assets because they were diverted to a purpose that serves the personal interests of an officer of the bank, rather than the depositors and stockholders...
West German terrorists have a powerful ally: their country's legal system. The laws of the Federal Republic, many enacted when Hitler was a fresh memory, strongly guarantee the right of political dissent and put heavy restraints on the investigative and prosecutory powers of the state. A cadre of 70 or so clever young radical lawyers (out of 31,000 practicing attorneys in West Germany) have pushed the system to its libertarian limits. They are not only the terrorists' best friends, but also the worst enemies of the courts...
Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan, meanwhile, was putting the final touches on what the Israelis are calling a "peace treaty" to discuss in Washington. The proposal is made up of 30 sections detailing in legal form a declaration of peace, exchange of ambassadors, resumption of trade relations and other workaday items. But there is no map showing what Israel's final borders might be and certainly nothing to indicate that Jerusalem will relent on its opposition to any negotiations with the Palestine Liberation Organization. Despite Israeli insistence that "everything is negotiable," a high-ranking official conceded that "there...
...recent years that trade on the public's understanding that they are really about Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Onassis or Howard Hughes The viciousness of this double understanding in these novels is in the way real people can be assigned cheaply torrid love lives with little chance of legal redress...
...could allow the Wamponoags to claim land that is now owned privately, as well. Indeed, 'the Indians' lawyer has stated that the same principle that allows the Indians to claim the common lands applies to all the land in Gay Head and some Indian factions want to assert that legal right...