Word: courtly
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...later turned himself in to the FBI, who offered to drop charges against him if he would "quietly" join the camps. Hirabayashi, a native-born American citizen, refused and took his case to court...
After refusing to be interned, he took his case to the local court, where he argued the relocation policy was unconstitutional because it deprived citizens of due process...
Your report on what might happen if Microsoft loses the antitrust case against it presages bad news for the giant corporation [BUSINESS, March 1]. However, I hope the court will realize that a whopping fine, the breakup of Microsoft or some such punitive action will be hurtful on a large scale to the millions of shareholders and citizens whose income is related to the company's success. MURRAY BROMBERG Bellmore...
What can Congress do for Microsoft? A Justice Department official says it could pass legislation that would effectively override any court-imposed solution in the antitrust case. And there are precedents. In 1981, AT&T tried, without success, to avoid a breakup by pushing a bill to restructure the company on more favorable terms. Much later, regional Bell companies, chafing under restrictions of the AT&T decree, were able to get it rendered moot by the 1996 Telecommunications Act. A blunter approach would be to forbid the Justice Department to spend any funds enforcing a court decree. Congress "could make...
...District Court last week aired a few Richard Nixon recordings that could use a parental-advisory label. Was Tricky Dick, not N.W.A.'s Ice Cube, the original gangsta? You decide...