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...would amount to 52% of the company's fiscal 1987 earnings. McKay, 45, won $44.6 million, while Williams, % 47, was awarded $24.9 million. McKay's judgment, which was higher because his salary at Ashland was larger than Williams', is one of the largest awards ever granted to an individual claimant. Ashland will appeal, and may be able to get the damages reduced. Because the company will not have to pay anything until the appeals process is complete -- something that could take years -- the verdict should have no immediate financial effect...
There is another element in the Dukakis campaign, one that is politically more problematic. With Mario Cuomo on the sidelines, Dukakis, the son of Greek immigrants, is the only claimant to give-me-your-tired-your-poor ethnicity. But this first-generation heritage can also make Dukakis seem like a political outsider, especially in the South. Introducing him at a speech in Corpus Christi, Texas Land Commissioner Garry Mauro said, "Governor, when I saw the two k's in your name, I can tell you we've never had a Dukakis run for anything in Texas...
Robins officials insisted last week that the firm was not trying to dodge its responsibilities. Says William Cogar, an attorney representing Robins: "We don't for a moment question that every business creditor for Robins will be paid and that every meritorious Dalkon Shield claimant will be compensated." The bankruptcy petition, in the company's view, is merely a way to buy time so that it can settle later...
...playing for publicity with Anderson's arrest. The gesture may also have been intended to dramatize a growing demand among Indian politicians for Union Carbide to pay the same sort of compensation to Bhopal's victims that it would if they were Americans. Those U.S. rates, under which each claimant could typically win $100,000, are considerably higher than their Indian equivalents. At week's end, three American attorneys, including Melvin Belli, filed a lawsuit in Charleston, W. Va., on behalf of Bhopal victims, asking damages of $15 billion. Said a company spokesman in Danbury: "Something like this happens...
...tall are you?" Retzlaff asked. "Six foot," he replied. "You look 5-10. How much do you weigh?" "One-eighty." "You look 165." Never mind; plenty of other National Football League scouts were attentive. When Theismann was not drafted until the fourth round, he was staggered. Even then, the claimant was Miami, which already employed Bob Griese. Theismann went to Canada...