Word: jose
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Jose, Calif...
When critics complain that such precedent-busting verdicts make little sense, plaintiffs' attorneys like Charles Kavalaris of San Jose, Calif., reply: "The innocent victim of an accident should have somewhere to go if he can prove liability. If you look at it through the eyes of a quadriplegic, it's a fairly simple question to answer." Defendants' lawyers, on the other hand, fume. Attorney Stephen Newton of Mountain View, Calif., recently settled a claim by a victim who was paralyzed for life in an auto accident. Newton, representing a trucking company whose driver was essentially a bystander...
...trade the pick to San Diego, Seattle or the Los Angeles Raiders. "I don't want to be a jerk or anything," Elway told Colts Coach Frank Kush, "but we [meaning Elway, his agent Marvin Demoff and his father Jack, the head football coach at San Jose State] have been telling you for three months I'm not going to play in Baltimore." Elway then called a press conference to declare, ''Right now, it looks like I'll be playing baseball with the Yankees. [The Colts] knew I held a straight flush and still they...
...tried to install an era of democracy. Instead, what we got was another dictatorship. --Jose Cardenal, an anti-Sandinista Nicaraguan...
...JOSE CARDENAL IS an intense man with dark brown eyes who seems to have trouble sitting still. Several times during our conversation in a cramped Cambridge motel room, the middle-aged Nicaraguan began to answer a question only to get up, rummage through a briefcase on the nearby bed, pick out a thick file, and sit down again. The files remained unopened on his lap; I sensed that Cardenal was using them as symbolic justification for the points he was trying to make. But even without concrete proof, the Nicaraguan's arguments against the ruling Sandinista junta were often convincing...