Word: involvedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The first phase of the Florida trial took eight months and involved more than 39,000 documents. But the plaintiffs' lawyers kept it simple. Cigarettes are addictive and dangerous, they told the jury. The industry has manipulated nicotine levels to make cigarettes more addictive, they argued, and misrepresented the risks...
For other students, the Courts have generally been hesitant to become involved unless officials' conduct is deemed "arbitrary and capricious."
"The courts stated basically 'we're not going to second guess administrators as long as there is no race and gender bias...we're not going to get involved in these matters,'" MacLeish said.
"The President is vitally interested and involved [in the data-collecting process]," said Merry D. Touborg, a University spokesperson.
Despite the lovefest, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer, "the relationship won?t be entirely free of friction. Under Netanyahu the U.S. became intimately involved in negotiating agreements and refereeing their implementation. Barak wants the U.S. to step back from that role and allow Israel to settle disputes directly...