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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rock bottom, his fall from grace goes even farther. Last month Bilzerian, 39, was convicted by a Manhattan jury on nine counts of securities fraud, which carry a potential 45-year prison sentence and $2.25 million in fines. Then last week the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of illegal stock transactions involving seven companies, including his 1988 takeover of Singer. The charges range from lying to the SEC about how he financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares he owned. In its suit, the SEC asks for repayment of more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Raider's Days Of Reckoning | 7/10/1989 | See Source »

...Nadel noted, though hoping to be both. He promised a decision ^ on Sunday. Rose's hearing before Giamatti was scheduled for Monday. Nadel did not have to say the stakes were even higher than the legacy of a legend, knowing that Rose's lawyers were hoping to "move this lawsuit into previously uncharted waters" and challenge the very foundation of the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Darkening Cloud over Pete Rose | 7/3/1989 | See Source »

...cost of $100,000, The Twelve Labors of Hercules touched off a storm of complaints over their graphic depictions of what critics called kinky sex and death. To quell the controversy, officials covered the murals with gold- colored drapes in 1982. Meanwhile, artist Michael Spafford filed a lawsuit seeking to bar the removal of his work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Murals: Last Chance For Hercules | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...system has been exercising "benign neglect" concerning racial imbalances in some schools. The case has been returned to the U.S. district court in Topeka, which will decide on remedies. Linda Brown Buckner, whose father was the plaintiff in the original case, was among the Topeka parents who revived the lawsuit in 1979. Says her sister, Cheryl Brown Henderson, the family spokeswoman: "The quality of education was slipping, and it appeared that the only way to get attention was legal redress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Topeka: Still Separate And Unequal | 6/19/1989 | See Source »

...examines every appalling aspect of modern life. Under the heading of "Rebuffs," he notes that "at one time the 'cut direct' was delivered by looking right at a person and not acknowledging his acquaintance or even his existence. This is no longer done. It has been replaced by the lawsuit." The subject of drinking inspires a classic paradox: "Never refuse wine. It is an odd but universally held opinion that anyone who doesn't drink must be an alcoholic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Sacred Cows As Hamburger | 6/12/1989 | See Source »

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