Word: contract
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Clinton Administration still lacks the ideas and consistency other countries are looking for, the Republican Congress is setting off even louder alarms. Freshmen legislators are so focused on their domestic agenda--the Contract with America has no foreign-policy provisions--that diplomacy has little value for them "except as a great place for drive-by shootings of the Clinton Administration," says a former Reagan Administration official. The new arrivals want to slash funding for the U.N. and cut the number of U.S. embassies abroad--some have talked about using the foreign-aid budget to build a big fence around...
Moore, a Democrat who took office in 1988 and is seeking testimony about tobacco's addictive properties and impact on health, believes the subpoena will protect Wigand from legal action by B&W for breaking his nondisclosure contract. But even more explosive than Wigand's deposition could be the documents that the subpoena requests him to produce. Those papers supposedly include evidence that B&W altered its research into the carcinogenic, toxic or addictive effects of tobacco, as well as a diary Wigand kept while working there. Wigand, says Moore, has "wanted to tell the truth...
...lost an archipelago of important affiliates, as well as such longtime executives as former broadcast chief Howard Stringer. Even David Letterman, one of the network's few bright spots, has fallen behind Jay Leno in the ratings, prompting the moody late-night host to talk about quitting when his contract is up in five years...
...issue, it seems, was not libel. CBS lawyers feared the network might be vulnerable to a suit on the grounds of "tortious interference"--inducing one party to break a legal contract with another. Attorneys are divided over whether the network could successfully have been sued on such grounds. By paying money to Wigand and agreeing to indemnify him against a lawsuit, some contended, CBS had put itself at serious risk. Attorneys who have been involved in litigation against the tobacco industry, however, insisted that the network was needlessly timid. "I think it's appalling they would fold over such...
...bench in the back of the New York City courtroom, holding a book of essays by Leo Tolstoy: What Is Art? At the time, Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment seemed a better choice: the prosecution had called 18 witnesses to back up its claim that King falsified a contract to collect $350,000 from Lloyd's of London for a canceled fight in 1991, and the defense had called only the evasive King...