Word: obstructive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Miami lawyer, and Rankin is now serving a 54-year term for drug conspiracy. Federal lawmen are also trying to nail lawyers who represent small-time gang members in order to protect higher-ups in the Mob. Lawyer William Cintolo, for instance, was indicted in December for conspiracy to obstruct justice after he allegedly was hired by the Angiulos, Boston's reputed top crime family, to represent a grand jury witness and persuade him not to testify...
...about to enter the facilities. There has been no sweeping condemnation by pro-life activists of such protests which have also risen sharply in the past year. Yet this form of protest is damaging in much the same way as the bombings are, for both serve to obstruct a woman's constitutional rights by adding an unwarranted burden of fear and hostility upon a decision which is, in and of itself difficult, difficult frightening and emotionally traumatic...
Assimilation and separatism tend to obstruct the realization of pluralistic ideals the report states adding that students must be free to choose their social and intellectual affiliations without constraint...
...case of highly newsworthy books, this means only "the ordering and choice of the words themselves." Otherwise, he went on, "an individual could be the owner of an important political event merely by being the first to depict that event in words." Copyright law "was not meant to obstruct the citizens' access to vital facts and historical observations about our nation's life...
Americans have stopped a President from a flagrant and clumsy attempt to obstruct an investigation against himself. "A President cannot command," Cox comments. "He can only persuade," But when opinion is the bound of his powers, he can still deceive. When another President contends our troops in Lebanon are at peace, so he can avoid the restraints of the War Powers Act; when he alludes to vague security threats in Grenada, but bars reporters and obstructs the public's critical vision of threat; when he distorts details and invents rationalizations for his policies, what effect can a firestorm have...