Word: bose
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...Supreme Court, which has not made a ruling on libel since 1979, last month heard oral arguments on a case involving critical judgments. Bose Corp. had sued Consumer Reports magazine for writing that one type of its audio speakers produced sound that "tended to wander about the room." A federal judge awarded Bose $115,000, but an appeals court overturned the decision on the ground that the company had not proved that the magazine was guilty of malice. The appeals court ignored the issue of whether the statements in question were presented as fact or opinion. Since the principal service...
...decay," of certain nuclei, like those of uranium 235. Post-Einstein theorists in the late 1960s succeeded in finding a unity between electromagnetism and the weak force. Their "electroweak" theory postulated the existence of a family of three particles called intermediate vector bosons (after the Indian physicist S.N. Bose...
Earlier this year, TIME carried an article on Consumer Reports magazine [Feb. 1] that described a libel case brought by the Bose Corp. over an article criticizing the Bose 901 speaker. In reporting on the opinion in favor of the Bose Corp., TIME said, "The verdict... casts doubt on the magazine's credibility." A U.S. court of appeals has now overturned that decision in a unanimous opinion. We have always been proud of Consumer Reports' reputation for objectivity. More important, the ruling is a reaffirmation of the public's right to know and the media...
...case involved the Bose 901 loudspeaker produced by Massachusetts-based Bose Corp. In a 1970 article, the magazine labeled the speaker inferior, saying that the sound of "individual instruments heard through the Bose system seemed to grow to gigantic proportions and tended to wander about the room." Bose challenged the article and won $115,296 plus interest in damages...
...though Harvard hasn't given up the fight, University lawyers "have some homework to do" to figure out possible ways to challenge the nomination, Supratik Bose, a University planning officer, said yesterday...