Word: avoiding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...North America, last December offered a settlement to Johnson. Explains I.N.A. Attorney Eugene Ralston: "The basic reason for settling was the enormous expense involved in the litigation. An in ordinate amount of time would have been involved in trying the case, and an appeal would have been likely." To avoid encouraging other such suits, I.N.A. requested that records of the case be sealed in secrecy, and U.S. District Judge George Templar agreed. But after the Kansas City Star broke the news of the settlement, Templar admitted that he had "stubbed his toe" by approving the secrecy agreement and unsealed...
...Distillers had been miserly with the Thalidomide victims. The stories provoked public outrage and pressured Distillers to raise its original settlement offer sevenfold, from an average of about $25,000 per child to $175,000. The articles were clearly in contempt of court. But the Sunday Times managed to avoid fines and jail terms by striking a deal: it agreed to show its final-and most damning-article to the government before publishing it. That article, detailing how Distillers had been negligent in selling the dangerous drug in the first place, was firmly banned by a lower court. The paper...
Ultimately, the future of the comunidades could well depend less on their theology than on whether they can avoid the appearance of being merely adjuncts of Marxist revolution in the hemisphere. For the present, the region's poor have the last word. Says Volta Redonda Housewife Sebastiana of the comunidades: "They are schools where we learn to be somebody...
...There is absolutely no solid documentation that there is a serious problem, and we want to avoid the harm of scaring people unnecessarily," he added...
Myth 5: The present level of defense spending must be maintained to avoid worsening unemployment...