Word: legally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...disabilities, the entrepreneurial atmosphere of the 1990s has taken them where so many other Americans are going--into business for themselves. Theodore Pinnock, 36, a San Diego civil rights attorney who has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair, started his own four-person law practice in 1991. The corporate legal world, he found, was less than welcoming. "The fact that I had a disability and that I am an African American made it very difficult for me to get where I wanted to be in my career," Pinnock says. "I had to work harder than most to gain the respect...
...Clinton and Gates are remarkably alike in other ways, particularly in their flaws. Both have almost limitless drive and self-absorption, and a willingness to push the rules to the edge--or past it--to get what they want. When called to account, both have been dismissive of the legal process and have had a strained relationship with the truth. These qualities have landed both men in similar binds: Clinton is waiting to hear if he will be removed from office, Gates is fending off the Justice Department's effort to rein in, or even carve up, Microsoft. Their flaws...
...past, since sexual-harassment studies are new to the '90s. Davis supporters believe they can draw a valid parallel to workplace sexual harassment, where once common behavior is now seen as unacceptable. "It's the same behavior, and it comes from the same place," says Martha Davis, legal director of the NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund. But opponents point out that children can be cruel without fully understanding it. "It's ridiculous. Most behavior shocking in adults is normal in children," argues Christina Hoff Sommers, a researcher at the conservative American Enterprise Institute...
...libraries formerly used gas ethyl oxide to kill mold on the books, but the federal government has since lowered the legal amount available to institutions...
Merrill-Oldham said the change in federal law is part of what prompted the new effort. "Since [the government lowered the legal limits] we really haven't had a good way to deal with mold. Disaster response is all that more important," she said...