Word: appealling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...judge in Chicago ordered Amoco to pay $85.2 million in damages and interest, the largest penalty ever assessed in an environmental case. Amoco called the sum excessive, and France's President Francois Mitterrand said the damages awarded "scarcely conform to the extent of the disaster." Both sides plan to appeal...
...first the equipment will be too expensive to appeal to anyone but real audiophiles. The Kenwood DAT unit will cost $2,000, and the cheapest recorder announced so far will be a $1,099 model from Casio. But as happened with CD players, prices can be expected to come down sharply as the market grows and competition heats up. Almost no prerecorded tapes are available yet to play on the machines, but at the Las Vegas show three small companies announced plans to market 100 classical and jazz tapes. The dearth of prerecorded tapes and the high price...
...said he planned to appeal the case. "I'm just waiting. It's been two years now [since the case began], and it's probably going to be another year" before it's over, he said...
...composers, Lloyd Webber repeatedly hits the Top Ten with his songs: I Don't Know How to Love Him from Superstar; Don't Cry for Me, Argentina from Evita; Memory, the instant standard from Cats. Four songs from Phantom have made the British charts. But despite his unique crossover appeal, his scores are far from cheap tunesmithery. In addition to their obvious debt to rock, Superstar, Evita and Cats also bristle with some hair-raising atonal passages, while Phantom's glorious credo, The Music of the Night, contains one of Lloyd Webber's most daring dissonant endings. Overt classical references...
...long after the bodies were found, the DEA discovered that Camarena's kidnapers had taped their attempts to interrogate him on drug cases. Mexican federal authorities first denied that the tapes existed, and they have told several different stories about the discovery of the recordings. But after a personal appeal by U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese, his Mexican counterpart Sergio Garcia Ramirez handed over copies of some tapes to DEA investigators, who have sought to identify the recorded voices. One of them, they say, matches that of Rene Martin Verdugo Urquidez, a Caro Quintero crony who is currently awaiting trial...