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...highly publicized case sparked a diplomatic tug-of-war between officials in Washington and Bern. Because Switzerland's law forbids the divulging of business secrets, authorities there took a dim view of an American court fining a Swiss firm to obtain documents. In August 1983 Swiss officials descended on Rich's Zug offices and seized papers out of fear that the company would cave in to U.S. investigators...
...they make today's Justices seem spry. In the mid-1930s, six members of the Supreme Court were over 70, and none was younger than 61. A majority was highly conservative on economic questions and deeply suspicious of the power of the Federal Government. The court took a dim view of President Roosevelt's economic recovery program, striking down one piece of New Deal legislation after another, starting with the National Industrial Recovery...
During the past year Corporation members have and personally with the heads of three firms--Joy Manufacturing Company. Dim and Bradstreet Corporation and Phibro Salomon, Inc.--whose policies are considered particularly objectionable...
...willing to spend a couple of evenings in Preston's numbing company if doing so will let him put off thinking about that oral surgery or those dunning letters from school. What overstrains Forsyth's vehicle to the point of collapse, when other thrillers no less dim clatter on dependably to their conclusions, may be that the author has weighty ideological points to make. His first intention is not to write an entertainment but to preach a political sermon. Its burden is that leftists and peaceniks really are fools whose habitual prating endangers civilization. Forsyth puts forward this...
...hall. But then the plot thins. For the first time since 1972, neither spot on the ticket needs to be filled. There are no renegades challenging the incumbent, no festering party feuds. The few philosophical conflicts that do exist are subterranean, more likely to be peaceably resolved in the dim light of back rooms than in the glare of prime time. So confident is President Reagan of a congenial coronation that he will not even arrive in town until Wednesday, the day of his nomination...