Word: legalizing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...legal argument works like this: While the 1890 Sherman Anti-Trust Act prohibits private corporations from colluding to set prices or any other business arrangement in private, exceptions apply in cases that serve the public interest. Universities contend that by agreeing on fair financial aid awards among themselves, they deliver more aid to more deserving students...
...want the television viewing audience to interpret this as some sort of indictment of this body," Danehy said. "I'm sure all of us here have conducted him or herself in a legal manner...
...five times as fast as the rest of the U.S. population since 1980. Their number has leaped 39% and is now 20.1 million, 8.2% of the U.S. total. The figures, released last week, came from a Census Bureau survey conducted in March, which made no attempt to distinguish between legal and illegal residents...
...Administration prefers a less spacious definition. But attempts to limit the scope of the anathema make it meaningless. According to State Department legal adviser Abraham Sofaer, assassination is the "unlawful killing of particular individuals for political purposes." The key word is "unlawful." It's not unlawful to kill combatants in wartime, or even to kill noncombatant civilians in the course of a legitimate military operation. It is "self- defense" to kill a head of state who is masterminding terrorist operations that threaten the national security of the U.S., the argument goes. But if the assassination ban forbids nothing that...
However, the real roots of the assassination ban are American and idealistic, not worldly and cynical. Assassination, said Secretary of State George Shultz, defending the ban after the Libya bombing, "doesn't fit our way of thinking on how to do things." Legal adviser Sofaer says, "Americans have a distaste for official killing, and especially for the intentional killing of specific individuals...