Word: holdouts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Washington. Last year, when for the first time in his career he won his 20th game, Lolich sprung for six bottles of champagne for his teammates. This season, the honors that have long eluded him are in view. McLain is in the minors, and Blue, after a lengthy holdout, has yet to win a game. Meanwhile, Lolich is bewildering American League batsmen with a repertory of pitches that now includes a "cut fastball," a slider and a hard sinker. His victory over the California Angels last week made him the second pitcher this season to win nine games and left...
...Gambinos were deliberately promoting the war, approving executions in order to fan the flames and encourage the Colombos and Gallos to kill one another off. Eventually, 73-year-old Carlo Gambino hopes, the war will leave him in undisputed control of four of the five New York Families. The holdout would be the Bonanno family, run by Natale Evola, which controls trucking and narcotics rackets in Manhattan. The other clans are the Lucchese gang, run by Carmine Tramunti; the Genovese family, bossed by Jerry Catena; and the Gallos and Colombos (see chart, page...
...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...
...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...