Word: breaches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...native Italy, Parretti raised cash for the deal by tapping European companies he controls and selling rights to movies controlled by Pathe and MGM/UA. Time Warner agreed to pay $125 million for home-video rights to the 1,700 films in the studios' library. Time Warner, which dropped a breach-of- contract suit that it had filed earlier against Parretti, also bought home- video rights to 11 current and forthcoming movies, including Quigley Down Under and Rocky...
Council Secretary Evan B. Rauch '92 said that although he considered Webb's tactics "a breach of ethics," the committee had ruled on the position paper, not posters. "If he didn't specifically say he wasn't going to post it, then we aren't going to hold him to it," Rauch said...
...recent years, industry leaders have searched for ways to expand into new lines of business. Last week the Federal Reserve Board granted J.P. Morgan & Co., the parent of the giant bank Morgan Guaranty Trust, the right to underwrite stocks through a separate subsidiary. The decision marked the widest breach yet in the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which has barred banking firms from buying and selling stock. On Wall Street securities firms charged that bankers might funnel federally insured deposits into risky stock deals. But regulations bar bank holding companies from shifting funds from a bank to a securities subsidiary...
...that Saudi Arabia was not quite the muscular Arab power it appeared to be. "Saddam showed that we are a paper tiger," notes an economist in Riyadh. "Our ability to defend ourselves is a joke." That realization augurs a revamping of the Saudi military. Less easily fixed is the ! breach of the implicit contract between the princes and their lieges. Saudi citizens may come to realize that if the monarch cannot ensure their security, perhaps he ought not to be the only person running things...
...will remember, of course, that Bernard Samson, England's rough-cut intelligence agent in Berlin, was bamboozling communist Stasi operatives with great success until his beautiful and highborn wife Fiona defected to East Germany and set up shop as a KGB colonel, no less. This breach of marital etiquette caused Samson endless problems -- how to find a suitable nanny for the children, whether to marry his young mistress, how to prove that he himself was not a Soviet mole, and so on -- detailed moodily and lengthily in the two most recent novels of Deighton's double trilogy, Spy Hook...