Word: dismission
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will now be up to a vote of the full Faculty to dismiss Randy J. Gomes and Suzanne M. Pomey, originally members of the Class of 2002, who were sentenced in October to five and two years of probation, respectively...
...experience as a trial lawyer enable him to confront Bush's coziness with business. Yet another views Kerry as the toughest potential rival: "The people who assume we can kill Kerry are the same people who thought Bill Clinton was a hick who couldn't win." They all but dismiss Gore. But then their boss is living proof of the power of low expectations...
...simply dismiss that defense. Grubman, 49, has spent much of his life puffing up his image. He has lied about his schooling and which Philadelphia neighborhood he grew up in. At the height of the telecom bubble, he saw himself less as a stock analyst than as a power broker, socializing with CEOs, including WorldCom's Bernie Ebbers, and offering them advice. But the newly obtained e-mails, brought to light in New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer's probe of conflicts of interest on Wall Street, are being taken seriously by those investigating Grubman. The e-mails...
That attitude is posing an especially tricky problem for the Bush Administration. Saudi officials are trying to get the U.S. government to intervene and dismiss or delay the case on national-security grounds. And senior figures in the State Department, sources tell TIME, are arguing that the litigation should be done away with before it impedes Saudi cooperation in a possible war against Iraq. But that view is not shared by everyone. Some Justice and Treasury Department officials see the lawsuit as a useful tool to pressure the Saudis into defunding al-Qaeda." The Saudis have offered piecemeal cooperation that...
...Khulumani Support Group which advocates for people scarred by apartheid, comes four months after a similar claim on behalf of four South African families. Thandi Shezi, a Khulumani project officer, says compensation should run into billions of dollars. The companies call the suits "baseless" and will fight to dismiss them. "You can't hold international investors responsible for the actions of governments," says Monika Dunant, a spokeswoman for Zurich-based bank UBS Group, named in both suits. But South African activists point to successful cases against Swiss banks that held onto money deposited by Holocaust victims, and companies in Nazi...