Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...document had only six lines of print, but for Texaco its price may run into the billions. The Texas Supreme Court refused to review a $10.5 billion judgment against the third largest U.S. oil firm. Now Texaco's only avenue of escape is the U.S. Supreme Court...
...sought relief in the courts ever since a Texas jury ordered the company to pay the fine to Pennzoil in 1985. The jury held that Texaco had illegally enticed Getty Oil to break a merger agreement with Pennzoil. Last April, facing a deadline to post bond for the judgment, Texaco became the largest firm in U.S. history to file for bankruptcy protection. Texaco had offered Pennzoil some $2 billion as a settlement; Pennzoil demanded more than $4 billion. Pennzoil's price reportedly has now risen to $6 billion...
...chance to live out a full life-span," he says. "Some research may come along in time to save them -- we don't know that they are all going to die." Callahan carefully avoids setting a flat cutoff age, preferring to let the condition of the patient, the judgment of the doctor and the wishes of the individual interact...
...forms; what she opposes is their domination of the profession. Part of the profession, anyway: in the publishing marketplace, traditional history still fares quite well. In the work of historians as diverse as, say, Daniel Boorstin and Barbara Tuchman, the traditional practices of storytelling, political analysis and moral judgment are all flourishing. But if the fads of the new history continue to blight the academic scene, Himmelfarb argues, we will be threatened with a profound loss: "We will lose not only the unifying theme that has given coherence to history, not only the notable events, individuals, and institutions that have...
What "Steinbrenner-Ball" boils down to is a complete absence of talent judgment. George and his infamous "baseball people" (do these guys have seams on their heads?) shuffle players in and out of the lineup and expect them to produce on demand...