Word: bose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the shining stars in the constellation of outstanding players are world-ranked Beverly Bose and Ann Grousbeck of Texas and freshman phenom Nicole Stafford of Clemson...
...Bose and Grousbeck, the top two seeds, cruised through the first two rounds of play, as did Texas' Diana Dopson and Michelle Carrier, the third and fourth seeded players in the "B" bracket...
...last week after the Supreme Court handed the U.S. press its first major libel victory in more than a decade. The case involved Consumers Union, the publisher of the product-rating magazine Consumer Reports (estimated circ. 3 million). The nonprofit organization had lost a $210,000 libel judgment to Bose Corp., a Massachusetts electronics manufacturer, for a 1970 article that criticized one of the firm's loudspeakers. A federal appeals court overturned the award in November 1982. The Supreme Court upheld that decision by a 6-to-3 vote and in doing so underscored the vital role of appellate...
...Consumer Reports article, an evaluation of several loudspeaker systems, the Bose model 901 was criticized for producing sounds that "tended to wander about the room." Bose Corp. sued in federal court in Boston, claiming product disparagement. After extensive testimony from the engineer responsible for the choice of words, the judge hearing the case ruled that the published statement had been false, since the sound actually wandered "along the wall." He further held that Consumers Union was guilty of malice because the engineer was too intelligent to have made the error inadvertently...
...Court of Appeals for the First Circuit rejected that reasoning. "Consumers Union was guilty of using imprecise language in the article," the court conceded in throwing out the award, but "this does not support an inference of actual malice." Bose went to the Supreme Court, where its attorneys argued that the appeals court had exceeded its authority by weighing the basic facts of the case-whether or not there was falsehood and malice-which is the responsibility of the trial court. Not so, concluded Stevens for the majority, ruling in effect that First Amendment guarantees of free speech...