Word: complaints
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Liberals still fulminate about the so-called Teflon factor that ostensibly insulated Reagan from the penalties for his weaknesses and mistakes. This complaint ignores some large facts. No Teflon protected Reagan's approval rating during the 1981-82 recession or the Iran-contra debacle. Moreover, commentators have shouted themselves hoarse warning about the dangers of the budget deficits...
...complaint of the bias against disadvantaged students is transparently cynical. This committment to equal opportunity for students of all socioeconomic background extends only to athletes. What coach has ever offered to share athletic slush funds with a brilliant, poverty stricken klutz...
...ruling was the latest turn in a dispute between Toyota and Ohio-based Mead Data Central, which since 1973 has offered a computerized legal- information service called Lexis. In December a federal judge in Manhattan upheld Mead's complaint that Lexus infringed on the Lexis trademark, and ordered Toyota to drop the name or pay Mead unspecified damages...
...maid at the inn claimed that Lewis offered her cocaine, and Washington, D.C., police officers investigating the complaint left the hotel after encountering a Barry security guard in the hall. Lewis has since disappeared, and police found traces of cocaine on a table in his room...
...return, Giuliani agreed to drop his stated plan to bring racketeering charges that could have crippled Drexel, the fifth largest U.S. securities firm. Before the deal can be completed, however, Giuliani stipulated, a 184- page civil complaint that the Securities and Exchange Commission brought against Drexel in September must be settled by Jan. 10. The SEC could conceivably ask for a larger pool of money to compensate alleged victims, who range from ordinary stockholders to Drexel's clients. Even so, Giuliani declared Drexel's fines and concessions "appropriate punishment." He added, "You do not put corporations in prison...