Word: awarded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...help but like the woman. She's attractive, charming, intelligent and totally committed to Jimmy. People eat up that sort of thing." In the grueling midday sun she toured places like a Harlingen health clinic, where she was given a Nuestra Hermana en Salud (Our Sister in Health) award, and she inspected a Fort Worth Y.M.C.A. camp with programs for the handicapped, where she took her turn on the obstacle course. Said a bystander in Los Angeles: "Now why couldn't she be the President...
...grant, which HEW's Office of Education stipulates must go to photocopy crumbling books, essentially continues a $380,000 award received last year for the same purposes...
...Manhattan found that Kodak, which made more than 80% of the film sold in the U.S. in 1973, when the case was first brought, and garnered over 60% of camera sales, not only had monopoly power in the amateur-photography field but had used this power unfairly. Berkey was awarded treble damages of $87 million. Now, in an equally stunning reversal, the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out all but $990,000 of the 1978 award; it dismissed $45.8 million of the damages outright and said that only a new trial could determine if Kodak must...
Undaunted by the decision and the trial for libel that he now faces, Proxmire vowed that he will continue to issue the Golden Fleece Award. But many press lawyers are concerned that the court's actions will result in more libel cases, and that more of them will survive summary judgment and go to a jury for a full trial. That is when legal fees soar...
...younger son and chief collaborator of Jacques-Yves Cousteau in oceanographic studies and films; after the seaplane he was piloting sank upon landing near Alverca, Portugal. The M.I.T.-educated Cousteau, who donned his first wet suit as a toddler, directed the camerawork for his father's Emmy Award-winning TV series...