Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trade unions. In a characteristic British compromise, Parliament did not empower ACAS to compel employers to recognize unions; ACAS can merely recommend compliance. If the court accepts Ward's basic contention that he cannot be forced to accept APEX, union officials fear there will be a host of legal challenges to ACAS recommendations. Says APEX Official John Wall: "If the court rules that ACAS has no teeth, there will be hell raised within the Trades Union Congress...
Lacking the legal authority to impose a solution, the Labor government and the courts appear to be powerless. Indeed, the Grunwick siege has raised some fundamental questions about the ability of Britain's democratic institutions to resolve labor disputes...
...Republicans ran against him. and so Yarbrough easily defeated the write-in candidacy of a judge named Sam Houston. And though the State Bar Association filed disbarment charges against him, Yarbrough gloated: "The legal establishment has taken their best shots and I beat them...
...cocaine can cause such side effects as sleeplessness, anxiety, hallucinations and even death. Cocaine also creates a strong psychological dependence, if not a direct physical addiction. While he endorses the relaxation of stiff penalties for smoking pot, NIDA Director Dr. Robert DuPont opposes any easing of the legal restrictions on what he regards as a far more dangerous trip. Insists DuPont: "Cocaine is not like marijuana...
...legal probes were not giving Bluhdorn enough headaches, G & W, which has several operating companies, ranging from Paramount Pictures in Hollywood to New Jersey Zinc Inc., has a heartache with its earnings. While operating revenues for the first three quarters of fiscal year 1977 are up 7.2%, net income is down 11 % because of depressed prices for sugar and paper, two big G&W divisions. The company's enormous long-term debt of $1.1 billion must be serviced, at high cost. A sizable investment portfolio that includes stakes in such companies as Simmons (mattresses), Wurlitzer (juke boxes), Amfac (sugar...