Word: broking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ordinate amount of time would have been involved in trying the case, and an appeal would have been likely." To avoid encouraging other such suits, I.N.A. requested that records of the case be sealed in secrecy, and U.S. District Judge George Templar agreed. But after the Kansas City Star broke the news of the settlement, Templar admitted that he had "stubbed his toe" by approving the secrecy agreement and unsealed the records...
...Minister Mehdi Bazargan appealed to Iranians to put aside "revenge, enmity and malevolence, forget the past and behave like brothers." There was good reason for the Prime Minister's plea: in an especially tense week in Iran, a former military chief of staff was assassinated, righting once again broke out among ethnic separatists, and police disarmed two men in what may well have been an attempt against Bazargan's life. Meanwhile, in an effort to consolidate the powers of his provisional government, the Prime Minister reshuffled his Cabinet and called for a reduction in the power...
...commission decided the Sunday Times case was worth hearing a year later, the English government and the courts began backing down. By then, it would have been absurd not to. Almost all the Thalidomide litigation was settled, leaving little to be prejudiced by the press. The dam finally broke: in 1976, the Sunday Times was allowed to print for the first time a story that explicitly discussed Distillers' negligence. And in 1977, the commission decided that England had violated the "free expression" guarantee of a human rights convention adopted by Britain and 17 other countries in 1953. The commission...
...rural squatters by land speculators, nonexistent sanitation and paving in their city. "Mud is the symbol of our lives," Joao, a retired steelworker, said angrily. "We live in mud, we are treated like mud." Later, as quietly as they had assembled, the groups of a dozen or so members broke up and returned to their own impoverished lives...
...given a drink that, he says, made him feel "very ill and out of control." He staggered outside and passed out. Meantime, Knight later said, one of the four Soviet men present told Jean that her husband had "sold" her to them, and another began to paw her. She broke loose and managed to get Robin back to their hotel, where police threatened to arrest him and tried to get Jean to sign a statement accusing her husband of drunken and disorderly conduct. She refused, and the couple eventually were allowed to return to their room. Robin was unconscious...