Word: fairness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...temporary restraining order barring Giamatti from holding the hearing, which had been scheduled for Monday. In what many critics denounced as a hometown ruling by a judge soon up for re- election, Nadel declared that Giamatti was so biased against Rose that the Reds' manager could not get a fair hearing. Nadel this week will conduct another hearing on a motion for an injunction to bar the Giamatti proceeding indefinitely. Even if Nadel issues the injunction, baseball lawyers are certain to appeal. Legal experts give them an excellent chance of winning; Nadel's initial ruling broke a long tradition...
...industry back into its hard-line position. Before the compromise was conceived, the lumbermen had made it plain that they would reject any reduction in permissible logging. In Washington, Oregon's congressional delegation was angered and disappointed. Lamented Hatfield: "I wonder if those who saw fit to torpedo a fair, short- term solution have anything to offer...
...most popular departments--Government, History, English and Economics--all have their fair share of famous names. Perhaps the best-known scholars come from the Government and Economics Departments, where the division between academia's Ivory Tower and the high-profile world of political advising often gets blurred...
...seen the sheets before.) A handwriting analyst, formerly with the FBI, contends that they were written in Rose's hand. Meanwhile, as the two-day hearing adjourned last Friday, the Reds' manager was at an autograph show in Atlantic City, stoically selling his signature at $15 per scribble. "Being fair and legally correct aren't always the same thing," Judge Norbert A. Nadel noted, though hoping to be both. He promised a decision ^ on Sunday. Rose's hearing before Giamatti was scheduled for Monday. Nadel did not have to say the stakes were even higher than the legacy...
Robert G. Stachler, Rose's advocate during the hearings, said, "If there is one American institution that the public expects to adhere to the concept of fair play, that institution is major-league baseball. All we're looking for is a level playing field." Because the controversial Giamatti letter predated Dowd's interview with Rose, let alone Giamatti's hearing (originally scheduled for May 25), Stachler argued that Rose had already been "found in effect guilty." The captain of baseball's squad of attorneys, Louis Hoynes, talked about a commissioner with two hats. He said Giamatti was wearing his "investigator...