Word: legalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...action of the House ethics committee was unusually swift, especially for that panel. By a unanimous vote, after a persuasive presentation by its staff, the committee last week charged Pennsylvania Democrat Joshua Eilberg of illegally pocketing $100,000 in legal fees in connection with his efforts to get a $ 14.5 million federal grant for Philadelphia's Hahnemann Hospital...
Nicholas R. Carbone, Deputy Mayor and Councilman of Hartford, Conn., said that he was part of "a real old-fashioned political machine." He said political machines, though sometimes corrupt, could provide local political participation for the disadvantaged, and can act in ways that are moral but not legal...
...endorsements reflect the wide-spread appeal of Harshbarger's ten years of legal experience in addition to the grass-roots, county-wide campaigning he has done since resigning from the Attorney General's staff in February...
...moral intelligence has ever confronted, and most of man's answers over the centuries have been neither very moral nor very intelligent. The principle of exact retaliation formulated in Mosaic law ("An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth") was actually a kind of early legal reform that placed precise limitations upon the extent of permissible revenge. When medieval kings began establishing strong central authority, and various offenses were perceived as crimes against the king's peace and his formal vanity, the older one-to-one system of compensation was abstracted into a legal machine...
...Battlestar Galactica, perhaps the most blatant rip-off ever to appear on the small screen. The show ripped off, naturally, is Star Wars, which Galactica copies in nearly everything but wit and talent. As a result, even before the show premieres this Sunday, it has been caught up in legal controversy...