Word: caps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...move towards a new form of Right Isolationism has its roots in Cap Weinberger's now-famous "happy wars" doctrine, in which the defense secretary advocated no U.S. military intervention except where victory and popular domestic support were largely ensured...
...Cap: Whenever tensions are running high on the international scene, all we'll have to do is launch a few million of the cameras into the main missile corridors. The Ruskies won't be able to get anything through that mess...
...change was only one of many that swept Haiti last week. As the country's 6 million citizens adjusted to the realization that Baby Doc was gone for good, they exulted in what the Roman Catholic bishop of Cap Haitien called "our second independence." And although the annual pre-Lent Mardi Gras celebration was canceled for fear that the swelling crowds would become disorderly, there were noisy, exuberant gatherings across the land...
...legal reforms that the doctors want, and the lawyers oppose, are technical but important. For example, the A.M.A. proposes eliminating punitive damages, and seeks a cap on "noneconomic" damages awarded for pain and suffering or mental anguish, which it says account for 80% of the dollars paid over the $100,000 level. It also wants a victim's compensation from such sources as medical or unemployment insurance deducted from court awards. Most bitingly, the doctors have called for a slidingscale limit on "contingency fee" arrangements, whereby lawyers take on a case for a sizable share (often one-third...
...case came into my office today," says Aldrich, "I wouldn't touch it." Berg's was one of the last major settlements reached before the California Supreme Court upheld portions of a new law that put a cap on court awards for pain and suffering and on contingency fees. That rule applied to Insurance Salesman Harry Jordan when he sued because surgeons mistakenly removed his healthy left kidney instead of his cancerous right one. Unable to work, he requires eight hours of dialysis three times a week. A jury awarded Jordan $5.2 million, but the cap law compelled the trial...