Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walton is still the richest man in America, but his fortune may be dented a bit because he missed a court deadline. A state judge in Fort Worth slapped his Wal-Mart Stores chain with an $11.6 million fine because Walton, 70, was 17 days late in delivering a deposition. The chairman's testimony was subpoenaed for a trial in which a customer demanded $6 million after slipping in a Wal-Mart in Sulphur Springs, Texas. The tardiness penalty dwarfed the $35,658.30 the jury awarded Andrew Carrizales, a Houston mechanic, for his injuries. The company will appeal Walton...
...over the music-publishing interests of SBK Entertainment World, based in Los Angeles. The U.S. company owns more than 250,000 songs, among them classic MGM motion-picture melodies like Singin' in the Rain and Over the Rainbow, as well as tunes written by James Taylor, Luther Vandross, the late Marvin Gaye and many other pop singers...
...pronounced that Walsh's decision "satisfies our problem, which has been . . . concern about national security." Reagan's critics claim that the President, who has praised North as a "national hero," may have let the ex-Marine off the hook without taking the politically risky step of formally pardoning him. Late last week Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell indicated that he wanted a Senate committee review of Walsh's decision. Already the judge has postponed the planned Jan. 31 start of the trial in the wake of these new developments. If the rest of Walsh's case collapses, the most embarrassing...
Both the student committee and the commission of outside experts are expected to complete their reports by late March...
...late- night talk shows of Wheel of Fortune' s Pat Sajak and Eddie Murphy' s sidekick Arsenio Hall are debuting with healthy station lineups and old- fashioned approaches...