Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...believe that there is anyone who is particularly fond of divorce. Nor is marriage a contract to be treated lightly. Two people who choose to marry should intend to stick with it for life. But the experiences of a lifetime can alter a situation dramatically. If a woman discovers that her face has been permanently damaged by a violent husband, should she try to work it out to maintain the institution of marriage? I am being slightly unfair in this point, since both Lat and the Pope concede that physical separation may be necessary in the case of abusive relationships...
...that GOPAC violated federal election law by attempting to influence federal campaigns without registering as a federal PAC and disclosing its finances." The allegations come at a particularly bad time for the Speaker, says Novak: "He's in the midst of trying to salvage the crown jewel of his Contract with America, the promise of a balanced budget in seven years, and it's increasingly possible that he'll fail. Congress and the White House aren't nearing agreement, and the public is blaming Gingrich and the Congressional Republicans. For Clinton, it wouldn't be so bad for talks...
Many of the advertisers who signed onto the magazine's eight-issue contract did so out of a belief that modern day consumers are also consumers of politics: they shop around and make consumer decisions about political candidates just as they would...
There may be a rematch, however. U.S. Attorney Mary Jo White of the Southern District of New York announced that the government will move to retry the case quickly, and there are indications that additional counts may be added to the nine concerning the contract for the 1991 fight between Julio Cesar Chavez and Harold Brazier. Had King been found guilty on all nine counts, he would have faced a maximum of five years in prison and a $2.25 million fine...
...original case was the confusing nature of the alleged insurance fraud, which centered on a fight that had to be canceled when Chavez cut his nose in training. The government's star witness, former Don King Productions accountant Joseph Maffia, testified that King told him to alter a contract to show that Chavez had received $350,000 in training fees, and Chavez testified through an interpreter that he had never been given that money. Maffia's careful, measured testimony was somewhat compromised when the defense played a tape of an angry Maffia telling King over the phone, "I'm gonna...