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...Although the team captain may extend his arms during congratulation, they must remain within the plane of his body. In addition, the interlocking of arms with the scorer or the grasping of his jersey or any other process which in any way inhibits the scorer's return to the bench will result in the assessment of a five-yard penalty for an infraction within the end zone and ten yards for an infraction on all other areas of the playing field...
...crowded courtroom fell silent as Richard G. Schultz, attorney for the McDonald's Corporation, approached the bench. Schultz, everyone there knew, was to defend his multi-million dollar client against charges of unfairly revoking the license of one Raymond Dayan, owner and operator of McDonald's franchises in Paris. Five hundred million dollars in damages was at stake. So was the entire French fast food market--one of the fastest-growing and most profitable such markets in the world. Reporters from the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal scribbled furiously as Schultz addressed the Hon. Richard Curry...
...selected so far, only one is black and two are women. Jimmy Carter, by contrast, chose 41 women and 37 blacks among his 281 federal judges. While policies change from President to President, federal judges serve for life, and helping send a large corps of judicial conservatives to the bench may end up as Smith's most lasting contribution to Reaganism...
That will not be a problem at ABC, which seems to have granted him everything NBC refused. Brinkley's switch marks a major victory in ABC News President Roone Arledge's drive to build what he calls "the best bench in town." In the past two years, Arledge has tried to hire Dan Rather, Tom Brokaw and PBS's Robert MacNeil and courted almost every other news star in the business. Signing Brinkley permits Arledge to go ahead with the new Sunday-morning show-scheduled to air from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. E.S.T.-providing...
...Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee from their play of the same name, sounds like a third-grade primer on Constitutional Law, replete with metaphors for an eight-year-old. "You can't turn the law into a straightjacket," feisty liberal Justice Dan Snow (Walter Matthau) tells arch-conservative bench-mate Ruth Loomis (Jill Clayburgh). "It must be a suit of clothes you can move around in." With this profound thought as a guideline, the movie dashes madly from issue to issue, like a tourist with an hour to spend on all of the national monuments. But the camera never...