Word: brawls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when business is bad -- as it certainly is in Europe these days. Last week German investigators found three boxes of documents from a General Motors subsidiary in the apartment of former employee Jorge Alvarez Aguirre, now with Volkswagen, and a feud brewing for four months flared into a bitter brawl. Alvarez was one of seven executives who last spring defected to Volkswagen with GM purchasing czar Jose Ignacio Lopez de Arriortua. "I cannot say that the papers we found were secret," said a spokesman for the local prosecutor's office in Darmstadt. "But I can say with certainty that...
Kennedy has perfected a barroom-brawl style of debating that leaves opponents flummoxed and the crowd laughing. "I got away with murder because I could be funny," Kennedy says...
...prosecution had not made its case, notwithstanding the admission by one defendant that he had yelled, "I don't want nothing to do with you faggots!" -- in response, the Marine insisted, to taunting by gays in the bar. According to the defense, the brutalized gay man willingly joined the brawl...
...wave of swelling and ever-more violent attempts at "censorship" among student groups. Let the University fulfill its obligation to impartially administer its rules and protect the rights of all student groups, and so avert an inevitable and pernicious collapse from protected free speech into a campus-wide brawl in which vandalism and personal threats are the encouraged modes of expressing disagreement. Tung Le '96 Press Secretary, AALARM Harvard
...state judge has ordered a time-out in the bitter brawl between Alabama Republican Governor Guy Hunt and Democratic state attorney general Jimmy Evans. Judge Randall Thomas dropped a dozen theft charges against Hunt for allegedly diverting $200,000 in inaugural and campaign funds to his personal use in the late 1980s, ruling that the indictment came after a three-year state statute of limitations had run out. One ethics charge -- punishable by up to $10,000 and 10 years behind bars -- did beat the clock. On that one count, said the judge, Evans can proceed...