Word: actually
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public figure, his lawyers must prove not only that the TIME story defamed him but also that the magazine published the statements knowing they were false or having serious doubts as to their truth, a contention TIME has strenuously denied. If the jury finds that there was such "actual malice," the two sides will present evidence concerning the reputation of Sharon, who is now Israel's Minister of Industry and Trade. The jurors will then have to determine whether Sharon was damaged by the TIME story and, if so, how much money he should be awarded...
...British incident is more worrisome and appears to be the first documented case of transmission from patient to medical worker. However, this case has several unusual features. According to the journal Lancet, it was not an ordinary needle-prick injury since it may have involved the actual injection of infected blood. Also, the nurse's patient apparently had contracted AIDS in Africa, where the virus seems to have different characteristics from its American cousins and appears to be spread primarily by heterosexual contact...
Anyone shrewd enough to make a living in the man-of-letters dodge knows that an occasional desk-clearing miscellany, a dustpan with hard covers, will be indulged between actual, seat-of-the-pants books. To E. (for Edgar) L. (for Lawrence) Doctorow's credit, he includes no commencement speeches, letters to the Times, book reviews or similar lint balls in this between-books collection. Instead, the author of Ragtime and Loon Lake offers six short stories, impeccably done, rather academic, mostly forgettable, and one 65-page mishmash called, for want of an accurate tag, a novella. The mishmash...
Lewis: I am uneasy about the actual malice standard for the reason Professor Nesson indicates...I would like to see several things happen... One is a realistic view of damages, which we've already talked about. If the purpose if the clearance of good name, the restoration of reputation, the making whole of actual injury, let's limit it to that and not turn it into a sort of a grab bag Two, I would like to focus on something more limited than we have now. Profesor Nesson has drawn you the picture of this bottomless subject of investigation What...
Crimson: Lawyers are demanding to go farther and farther into the actual process of gathering news and I was curious whether you thought that that was another aspect to this libel business that could potentially damage newspapers...