Word: iras
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Looking back now, Wisconsin was not such a long shot after all. Not only had the Badgers beaten the Crimson in the heats at the Sprints (though they were creamed in the finals), but they had also beaten Harvard a couple of weeks later, at the IRA championship in Syracuse...
...falls to Berkeley chancellor Ira Michael Heyman, who was never enthusiastic about building a monument, to decide whether to accept the Art Project's gift. The question he must ask himself: Is it right to take free speech for granite...
...point out that over the years the buyout and the more democratic proxy fight have alternated as the favored means of shaking up management, depending largely on the availability of capital. "When you can't buy, you have to persuade and compromise," observes Harry DeAngelo, director of the J. Ira Harris Center at the University of Michigan. While the proxy fight is a less certain instrument than the buyout, notes Harvard finance professor John Pound, "it is much more consistent with the American political system, in which officials should be held accountable to their constituents...
...have been carried out in the U.S., most of them in Texas, Florida, Louisiana and Georgia. The prospect that the Southern "death belt" will be joined by California has opponents of capital punishment worried. "California is the key state in the death-penalty debate," says American University law professor Ira Robbins. "If a fairly moderate-to-liberal state can execute someone, then states such as Ohio and Pennsylvania might be next...
...After several people approached the police with new information in late February, officers armed with a search warrant confiscated records and tapes from the psychologist's office. Lawyers for the Menendez brothers argued that seizure of the tapes violated the laws governing doctor-patient confidentiality. But the district attorney, Ira Reiner, said the confidentiality rule can be broken when a patient presents a continuing danger or threat. The district attorney filed murder charges against the Menendez brothers, asking for the death penalty. Said Reiner: "It's been our experience in the district attorney's office that $14 million provides ample...