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...Friday, state Supreme Court Justice Stephen Crane, the trial judge, refused a defense request to dismiss or at least delay the trial. Goetz's lawyers charged that the prosecution illegally withheld information favorable to the defense from the grand jury that indicted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Geotz Trial Opens Today in New York | 4/28/1987 | See Source »

...long and hard. Most of the Hollywood community is publicly rooting for the newcomer (largely because it offers another market for programming), but privately, in the words of one producer, "skepticism is running very high. The money in this town is on failure." No one, however, is ready to dismiss Murdoch's bold venture. "It's well financed, it's well conceived, and it's got a guy with deep pockets," says Edward Atorino, media analyst at Smith Barney. Murdoch expects to spend $150 million over the next two years and does not anticipate making money for at least four...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: Room For One More? | 4/6/1987 | See Source »

...media, by priests who would like to credit his miracles to the intervention of the school's namesake in order to have her declared a saint (she already has one miracle to her credit; she needs two more for sainthood), by other priests who would like to dismiss his miracles because he is an atheist and by doctors who want to examine his remarkable recuperative abilities. Vic falls off a 40-foot building and suffers only cuts and bruises. He is not even aware that the has an inoperable brain tumor that has spontaneously gone into remission...

Author: By Gary L. Susman, | Title: Miracle Worker | 3/27/1987 | See Source »

Employers may still dismiss someone who is incapable of doing work or who poses a significant risk of spreading disease. But, Brennan stressed, each individual case must be judged in the light of medical evidence that such a risk exists and a showing that safe alternative work cannot reasonably be found for the employee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Handicap Rights: Even AIDS seems covered | 3/16/1987 | See Source »

More ramps follow, and then you stumble upon the food concourse, and the aroma of hot dogs and spilled beer assaulting your senses. Another Garden usher in a gold jacket talks with a security guard in a blue uniform. Both dismiss you with a terse set of directions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Insiders' Guide to the Boston Garden | 3/13/1987 | See Source »

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