Word: legalizing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...School administrators have been searching for a candidate for six to eight months, Jackson said. They are a week away from the legal deadline for selecting a candidate, he added...
...hand does not know what to do next, he is more apt to shrug and say, "I guess I'll go to business school." As President Bok says in his annual report this year, treating the B-School, "Before long, a business education will rival legal training as an outlet for ambitious students of uncertain vocation, since everyone who aspires to 'take charge' and 'run something' will perceive that a business degree offers a path-way to manage any complex organization from a company to a hospital to a government...
...thus with a sense of urgency that many of the leading opponents of capital punishment assembled in Florida last week to stage a last-minute campaign for the hapless Spenkelink. Henry Schwarzschild of the American Civil Liberties Union warned of a "constitutional, legal and political disaster that will shock and appall the rest of the world." Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, a late addition to Spenkelink's defense team, called the occasion "a tragic moment in American history" and gibed, "If you work at city hall you get voluntary manslaughter," a caustic reference to the lenient verdict against...
...that a lobster can barely move without bumping into one. Farther offshore, foreign fishermen have been using more sophisticated dredges to scoop up lobsters. In all too many cases, young females are removed before they have had a chance to reproduce; often they are taken under the typical state legal limit of 3 3/16 in. from eye socket to the beginning of the tail, a restraint that may still be too lax, according to scientists. The result: a dwindling lobster catch even in such once fertile waters as those off Maine...
...rash of malpractice suits, but the American Medical Association discounts such fears. Strongly supporting congressional action, many consumer groups and pro fessional organizations like the American Medical Record Association are convinced that without a new law medical privacy stands in mortal jeopardy. In a decision that could have legal repercussions elsewhere, the Colorado Supreme Court in April tossed out indictments against two insurance companies that hired a Denver detective agency that allegedly trained employees to impersonate doctors and bribed hospital personnel to obtain medical records. The court's reasoning: theft statutes could not be used to prosecute the firms...