Word: feuds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...journalist wants to interview me," Schmertz writes, "I generally assume the story he's working on is hostile to me or my company, or else he wants to use me to attack somebody else. When a print reporter calls, I make no such assumptions." Yet Mobil, in a feud with the Wall Street Journal, refuses to talk to Journal reporters, and has taken its ads out of the paper. Merely a tantrum, or wrong- headed behavior by a giant corporation...
...double-duty casting doesn't stop here. Lord Capulet and Tybalt are both played by Kanuth. At least these two are on the same side of the feud. Kanuth is excellent as "the fiery Tybalt," but Lord Capulet comes across as perhaps just a bit too fiery in this production...
Iacocca then raised a pertinent question about his firing: "Is there more here than meets the eye?" He suggested one possibility: his long-running feud with the National Park Service, which is under Hodel's Interior Department, over how to restore the 27-acre Ellis Island. "I will oppose any effort to commercialize this restoration project," he declared. "And that includes any plans to build a luxury hotel and conference center on the island." He charged that the Park Service wanted to finance this center "through the sale of tax shelters for the rich." While Hodel soft-pedaled the conference...
...institution as stable and tradition-bound as Harvard Law School suddenly found its way into the holy trinity of the media--The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Time magazine? Public attention has focused on the "academic feud" between conservative and radical faculty members that has shaken the foundations of the Law School. Cited as the cause of the battle are the self-styled "unholy triumvirate" of professors Duncan Kennedy, Morton Horwitz, and Roberto Unger, and the Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement they helped start...
Even as the Guccis battle enemies around them, they seem unable to forge a workable peace within. The suit against Maurizio is only the latest family feud to land in the courts. In 1982, Aldo was sued by his son Paolo, 54, formerly Gucci's chief designer, who accused his father, brothers and cousin Maurizio of beating him up to settle an argument during a riotous board of directors meeting...