Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...accepting the challenge of the Burger Court while evading some of its more conservative pronouncements. State court interpretation of state constitutional law is final, immune from Supreme Court review unless a violation of federal law can be established. Some state courts still assume "they don't have to protect individual rights any more since the U.S. Supreme Court is doing it," says California Associate Justice Stanley Mosk, "but more states are taking the view that they now have...
...additions will have to be made to the Darwinian theory that natural selection takes place only after the organism is formed and begins adapting to the world around it. That notion does not seem to bother Pieczenik. "What this means," he says, "is that the DNA sequences exist to protect themselves and their own information. It's not the organism that counts. The DNA sequences don't really care if they have to look like a lowly assistant professor or a giraffe." If that is indeed the case, he concludes, the DNA sequences will also resist outside attempts...
...what he considered unjustified expenditures by the Pentagon. In 1971 Schlesinger moved on to become chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which had fallen under the influence of the utility industry. In his first meeting with utilities executives, he told shocked industry leaders: "Gentlemen, I am not here to protect your triple-A bond ratings...
...ruling, the first of its kind, is not binding on other courts, but Justice Leahy issued a "dire" warning to prosecutors across the nation to protect religious freedom. At the courtroom, robed and garlanded Defendant Murphy exulted, "Where there is Krishna there is victory." The victory was not total, however. Legal expenses have crippled Hare Krishna activities in New York, the abductors of Merylee Kreshower have escaped prosecution, and Justice Leahy's words are unlikely to deter deprogrammers elsewhere...
Died. Jan Patoĉka, 69, senior spokesman for the Czechoslovak Charter 77 group of more than 600 intellectuals, which calls on the Prague government to protect the human rights of its citizens; of a brain hemorrhage; in Prague. A former professor of philosophy, Patoĉka was hospitalized for exhaustion earlier this month after prolonged questioning over a two-day period at the Interior Ministry...