Word: judgments
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Osterberg said he is "cautiously optimistic" about the success of the upgrade, and said he is withholding further judgment until system usage returns to normal levels today...
Black days come all too often in Israel, and Friday was another. Members of the extremist group Hamas gave their own judgment when they shattered the Jewish holiday afternoon in downtown Tel Aviv with a powerful bomb. As costumed merrymakers paraded down the city's streets to celebrate Purim, which commemorates the deliverance of the Jews in ancient Persia from a plot to slaughter them, a man entered one of the cafes and detonated himself, killing three Israelis and injuring at least 47 more. A six-month-old girl, her tiny, blood-soaked body cradled in a policewoman's arms...
...First, a small but determined group of stockholders, including some of the family that controls the company's voting shares, raised a ruckus about its weak performance, particularly at its Telerate unit. Then last week the company's star attraction, the Journal, got whacked with a $223 million libel judgment, the largest ever, courtesy of a Houston jury. The panel found the paper and one of its reporters, Laura Jereski, had libeled the investment firm MMAR Group Inc. The company went out of business shortly after the paper published an article that in part described an alleged skirmish between MMAR...
...important a test of constitutional principles it believes this case to be. The CDA, once feared and reviled by civil libertarians, is now seen as so flawed ("dead meat" is how Wired News described it last week) that its opponents are eagerly looking forward to a ruling. A clear judgment against it by the Supreme Court could end up extending First Amendment protection for all media into the 21st century. It could also help douse anti-Net brush fires that have sprung up at state and county levels in the months since the bill was signed...
...failed to prevent the ever increasing flow of drugs across its borders. It is the largest narcomarket in the world, with drug use now seen frequently among elementary and high school students. Before passing judgment on Mexico, the U.S. should examine whether it could be certified as cooperating in the drug war. JUAN MARIO STETA Mexico City...