Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...team from one of the oldest states in the union and a team from one of the youngest tangled on a neutral volleyball court Saturday...
...they play on courses that are generally gentler and a couple of hundred yards shorter. Golf carts, forbidden on the regular tour, are allowed. The problem in tennis, McEnroe explains, "is that we've still got to run, and they haven't yet come up with a shrunken court." Seniors competition is limited to two sets, however, and if necessary a 10-point tie breaker instead of the regular best out of three...
...first court battle ended in a mistrial. On retrial, the jury embraced New Thinking by finding American Tobacco liable for Horton's death--a conceptual breakthrough. But Old Thinking lingered: the jury figured, at the same time, that Horton had obviously brought cancer on himself and awarded zero dollars in damages...
...linguists: Apparently, there is no German translation for "unlimited guarantee." And if you?re a foreign company that happens to forget this little rule of commerce, or offer your customers a little promotional gift, a consortium of 1,600 German businesses will be happy to take you to court to keep you in line. The latest defendant in the German war against "unfair competition" is Wisconsin-based clothier Lands? End. The charge? That Lands? End?s unlimited money-back guarantee ? inviting consumers to return any of the company?s products, at any time, for any reason ? is illegal under German...
Lands? End lost its case, and it's far from being alone. Each year, more than 20,000 foreign companies are taken to court under this law, which strictly regulates sales or special promotions by marketers, as well as "gifts" to consumers. Is this simply an inferiority complex masquerading as a lawsuit? According to Wallace, the continuing flood of lawsuits is partly due to a case of nerves within the German business community. "Here are 1,600 German companies, scanning the horizon, looking for anything that might threaten their business and profits ? and when they see something, they make...