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...years, U.S. judges have used the so-called Allen charge, an instruction encouraging holdout jurors to join the majority in reaching a unanimous verdict. Fearing a divided jury in an assault and robbery case, District of Columbia Judge Oliver Gasch recently invoked elements of the Allen charge. When the jury could not agree, the judge complained to the jurors of the court's backlog and added that retrying the case before another jury "just doesn't make sense to me." A verdict of guilty followed. The defendant appealed, arguing that the judge had forced a decision. The Court...
Among them, Ford, Webb and Quinn summed up the new prime-time TV season that premiered on the three networks last week. Some of the brightest and longest-holdout stars, now caught in the twilight of Hollywood and of their own careers, swallowed their images and signed on for TV series...
...members of the International Air Transport Association. The proposal, which included special advance-purchase excursion (Apex) fares for passengers who buy their tickets three months ahead of departure, could not go into effect without Lufthansa's approval, since all such IATA decisions must be unanimous. Lufthansa, the only holdout, stalled past the final deadline last week, then announced its own, even lower round-trip fares between New York and Frankfurt. They...
...imagine on paper. Holed up in his self-made prison, he writes, munches apples and turns a deaf ear to Levenspiel, the landlord who wants to get him out so the structure can be replaced by a new six-story apartment building. Lesser is the last tenant, a holdout protected from eviction by a maze of city regulations. Using the world's red tape to keep the world at bay is Lesser...
...gether in the 108-member International Air Transport Association, has been setting air fares for the past 26 years with only an occasional break in its façade of comfortable unanimity. All that will likely end this week. West Germany's Lufthansa has been the sole holdout against a new scale of North Atlantic air fares, and IATA has given the "Route of the Red Baron" until Sept. 1 to go along. If, as expected, Lufthansa refuses to reconsider, IATA members will be without a common rate package...