Word: processes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What McCarthy has done already is fantastic: to mobilize formerly desperate college students and give them the one thing that has alienated them from society for so long-namely, faith in the American democratic process, hope from despair. Eugene McCarthy can do the same for the country if we support him. JOHN WOODWARD...
...organ bank from which surgeons could draw a kidney, a liver or a heart for transplantation when needed is still far off in the future, but an information bank from which surgeons may find out about organs as they become available is in the process of being established. Sponsor of the bank-or, more precisely, clearinghouse-is the Medic Alert Foundation. Started on a shoestring twelve years ago in Turlock, Calif., by Dr. Marion Collins, the organization has by now issued something like 200,000 identification bracelets and necklace tags to victims of diabetes, hemophilia, penicillin allergy and other conditions...
Capricious Phrases. The due process clauses of the Fifth and 14th Amend ments have been particularly mangled, he feels. In the past, a majority of the Court has often used due process, said Black, to "strike down laws which Justices found to be 'unreasonable,' 'arbitrary,' 'capricious,' or 'contrary to a fundamental sense of civilized justice.' What, for example, do the phrases 'shock the conscience' or 'offend the community's sense of fair play and decency' mean? I submit that these expressions impose no limitations or restrictions whatever...
...been at least 40 years," said Stanford Law School Dean Bayless Manning, "since the perception became clear that the legal process is a part of the social process as a whole, but we have done little with that perception in our law schools other than to talk about it. We lawyers have a major new task. The problem before us is ourselves...
...would expand small-bore cases in a geometrically progressive explosion. Divorces, housing problems, job denials, welfare claims-all such relatively tiny disputes would entitle the principals to legal representation. Now, even with the OEO law offices that have sprouted around the country, most such cases never enter the legal process at all unless the disputant can afford a lawyer or has a claim that seems likely to establish a precedent...