Word: legality
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...then worked as an adviser to the presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy '40. When Kennedy was elected, Chayes moved to Washington, where he was the legal adviser to the State Department. In that role, Chayes worked closely to develop the administration's response to the 1961 Berlin crisis, as well as the Cuban missile crisis...
...part of a committee of international legal experts that advised the government of Bosnia- Herzegovina on issues of corruption...
...over, and it's now widely assumed that the only way this is going to end is when the feds go in and fetch Elian." Although the government has delayed action pending an Atlanta appeals court ruling - expected Wednesday - on who speaks for Elian, it already has the legal authority to seize him from his Miami relatives and return him to his father. Last Thursday's injunction simply stipulated that the boy not be returned to Cuba before the completion of the appeals process, and that's a condition his father has accepted. Which means that Janet Reno now faces...
...this keeps up, we may just start pitying the tobacco companies. In the latest indication of just how far the political and legal climates have swung against Big Tobacco in recent years, the New York Senate voted Monday to require all cigarettes sold in the state to feature self-extinguishing paper. Ostensibly, the regulation is a way to reduce fires (cigarettes are responsible for roughly one in four fire-related deaths in the U.S.), but the bigger story here is that it's become popular for politicians to make it more expensive and complicated to produce, market and sell cigarettes...
...believe they annoy smokers - who have to relight their butts if they take too much time between drags - and cost more to produce. The anti-tobacco lobby, of course, is cheering the news and predicting that it could open the industry to another spate of lawsuits. But, says TIME legal analyst Alain Sanders, while the measure could help show that tobacco firms have held out on making cigarettes safer to a certain extent, plaintiffs would have "a serious uphill battle" in proving tobacco companies culpable of deaths caused by untended cigarettes...