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	injunction injunction in law, order of a court directing a party to perform a certain act or to refrain from an act or acts. The injunction, which developed as the main remedy in equity , is used especially where money damages would not satisfy a plaintiff's claim, or to protect personal or property rights... Read more
	Danbury Hatters' Case Danbury Hatters' Case decided in 1908 by the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1902 the hatters' union instituted a nationwide boycott of the products of a nonunion hat manufacturer in Danbury, Conn., and the manufacturer brought suit against the union for unlawfully combining to restrain trade in violation o... Read more
	Pullman strike Pullman strike in U.S. history, an important labor dispute. On May 11, 1894, workers of the Pullman Palace Car Company in Chicago struck to protest wage cuts and the firing of union representatives. They sought support from their union, the American Railway Union (ARU), led by Eugene V. Debs , and... Read more
	decree decree in law, decision of a suit in a court of equity . It is the counterpart in equity of the judgment in a court of law, although in those jurisdictions where law and equity have merged, judgment is sometimes used to include both. The difference between the two, however, is fundamental. A jud... Read more
	Taft-Hartley Labor Act Taft-Hartley Labor Act 1947, passed by the U.S. Congress, officially known as the Labor-Management Relations Act. Sponsored by Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Representative Fred Allan Hartley, the act qualified or amended much of the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act of 1935, the federal law ... Read more
	Clayton Antitrust Act Clayton Antitrust Act 1914, passed by the U.S. Congress as an amendment to clarify and supplement the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890. It was drafted by Henry De Lamar Clayton. The act prohibited exclusive sales contracts, local price cutting to freeze out competitors, rebates, interlocking directo... Read more
	loan loan in business, sum of money borrowed at a particular interest rate. More generally, it refers to anything given on condition of its return or repayment of its equivalent. A loan may be acknowledged by a bond, a promissory note, or a mere oral promise to repay. Because of biblical injunctions aga... Read more
	mandamus mandamus [Lat.,=we order], in law, writ directing the performance of ministerial acts. A ministerial act is one that a person or body is obliged by law to perform under given circumstances; e.g., on receipt of the fee, a license clerk must grant a marriage license to persons legally qualified to ... Read more
	nuisance nuisance in law, an act that, without legal justification, interferes with safety, comfort, or the use of property. A private nuisance (e.g., erecting a wall that shuts off a neighbor's light) is one that affects one or a few persons, while a public nuisance (e.g., conducting a disorderly house) af... Read more
	Richard Olney Richard Olney 1835-1917, American cabinet member, b. Oxford, Mass. He was a successful Boston lawyer and had served briefly in the state legislature before President Cleveland appointed him to his cabinet. As Attorney General (1893-95), he obtained an injunction against the strikers in the Pullman... Read more

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Double Bind
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis ...constraining interaction, the paradoxical injunction that they called the double...to drive me crazy." This paradoxical injunction, where the double...schizophrenia. The group showed the paradoxical nature of this technique...

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	SAUDI ARABIA: The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia and the Movement of Reform Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; SAUDI ARABIA The Paradoxical Kingdom: Saudi Arabia...392. $32.50. The Paradoxical Kingdom seeks to develop...of the economy. The paradoxical nature of this interaction...accommodate to the Islamic injunction against charging interest...
	Paradoxes: No simple matter. Magazine article from: Women and Language; 9/22/2001; ; 700+ words ; ...the concepts of paradoxes and paradoxical injunctions that place people in untenable...repetition of numerous compounded paradoxical messages, given on multiple...Certainly, the power of paradoxical messag es is related to other...
	Stepping Off the Throne Magazine article from: Family Therapy Networker; 7/1/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...and the Brief Family Therapy Center of Milwaukee; and Milton Erickson. We were adept with miracle questions, paradoxical injunctions, embedded commands and reframes. We wanted to show that these techniques could work not only with transient...
	The Tayloring Shop: Essays on the Poetry of Edward Taylor in Honor of Thomas M. and Virginia L. Davis.(Review) Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 7/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...generally; the 'peculiar elegance' of the poetry, he argues, depends on Taylor's 'awareness and use of the paradoxical injunctions of [St] Paul' and on 'Taylor's ability, as poet, to recast Biblical allusions to create intertextual...
	Riding Out the Storm Magazine article from: Family Therapy Networker; 1/1/1998; ; 700+ words ; ...practiced them on our clients. Too often, we've seen the appearance of dramatic change fade. Does anyone do paradoxical injunctions anymore? Once I fancied myself as skillful as a heart surgeon. Now, as the seasons pass in my own life and...
	Tennyson's 'Idylls,' pure poetry, and the market. (Alfred Lord Tennyson) Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 9/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...writing of poetry. Poets were faced with an apparently paradoxical injunction: realize (be like the novel) but idealize (be "poetic...resolve, the contradictions inherent in both the dialectical injunctions directed at poets at midcentury and in the rhetorical strategies...
	Breath, Today: Celan's Translation of Shakespeare's Sonnet 71 Magazine article from: Comparative Literature; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...command. Celan's translation of the sonnet's paradoxical injunction ("Forget me") not only demonstrates that translation...And it is by translating this uncomfortable injunction that Celan translates not only Shakespeare's sonnet...
	Maurice Blanchot: The Demand of Writing.(Review)(Brief Article) Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words ; ...writings. Taken as a whole, this is an important collection, at its best when the contributors follow the paradoxical injunction, emerging from Blanchot, to move (not) beyond. <ADD> PAUL HEGARTY UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, CORK...
	LAWSUIT LIMITS REGISTRY FROM MEGAN'S LAW.(CAPITAL REGION) Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 1/3/1997; 700+ words ; ...lawsuit and a federal court injunction, state officials can't...17 names. ``I find it paradoxical,'' said Thomas O'Brien...York City next Monday on the injunction. When state lawmakers approved...others in a community. The injunction blocks the hot line and community...
	A FREE GIFT MAKES NO FRIENDS.(anthropological analysis of the "pure" or "free" gift) Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...This example illustrates the inherently paradoxical nature of the idea of a gift, and why...free gift has, as we shall see, a paradoxical and self-negating character, it may...purification during a single lifetime, but the injunction to ascetic self-sacrifice is powerful...