Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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errors in law" in federal court soon, Sullivan told the council...
...higher court upholds the earlier ruling, I would consider it a moot point and say any more challenges would be futile," Sullivan said...
...been Laetrile, a derivative of the pits of apricots and other fruits, which is used by as many as 75,000 cancer patients. Since the Federal Government has never found Laetrile to be safe and effective, it is barred from interstate distribution. Two years ago, however, a U.S. court of appeals ruled that the ban does not apply to terminally ill cancer patients. The court reasoned that since the patients were going to die anyway, the Food and Drug Act's "safe and effective" standard is irrelevant; thus the Government should not deny them the drug...
...sudden move, a Tehran court handed down a ten-day injunction blocking further payments to General Telephone & Electronics, which has been drawing down a huge letter of credit for services rendered on a $700 million project to modernize Iran's telephone system. A team of GTE negotiators had believed they were making progress toward an amicable settlement. But then GTE's local client, state-owned Telecommunications Company of Iran, sued to halt payments on the outstanding credit to GTE worth $194 million, charging that the company had installed inoperative equipment...
...hopes to renegotiate the contract, arguing that the equipment is not working only because other contractors had not yet installed the necessary cables. Failing that, GTE and the Iranians are likely to get into a court brawl when the injunction expires. As if to leave no doubt about its intentions to rap U.S. firms, the Iranian regime next day announced that it was abrogating a large contract with Anaconda, involving the building of a $1.7 billion copper purification plant...