Word: lawsuits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...then Signet called in the loan. At first Barbour refused to pay the $1 million balance due. When the Youngs' lawyers threatened a lawsuit, the forum paid up $500,000, but that still left an angry Young with a $500,000 loss--sparing the R.N.C. from having to dip into campaign finds to pay off the rest of the debt...
...from minority or disadvantaged suppliers. (The company's earnings fell last year as sales of superpremium ice cream dipped; for the recent first quarter, Ben & Jerry's reported a $1.06 million loss.) Detractors call such contracts posturing and note that Ben & Jerry's has been fighting a lawsuit by a minority supplier that claims to have been dumped. Still, Ben & Jerry's--which sets forth its philosophy in a newly published book, Double-Dip: Lead with Your Values and Make Money Too--has an unusually intense focus on social activism. Each year the company conducts a "social audit" to gauge...
...court papers. "His management said, 'The dates that you're doing aren't going to sell out, and we can't deal with him playing less than sold-out shows. His ego is too hard to handle,'" says Coppel. Bolton's management denies this and says the lawsuit is "frivolous and has no merit, and will be dismissed by the court." But this cloud might have a silver, New Agey-type lining. According to his publicist, the makers of Bolton's preferred brew, Celestial Seasonings, have already inquired about an endorsement deal...
...billion lawsuit will likely spend years in the courts, but the Amungme tribe had its first victory recently when U.S. Federal Judge Stanford Duval Jr. Ruled that American federal courts have jurisdiction over the dispute...
...February, Sunni Khalid, 38, the network's only black foreign reporter, filed a lawsuit charging that while based in Cairo, he was paid less than other foreign correspondents and denied a promotion despite a favorable review and several high-profile assignments. Khalid, who is a Muslim, also charged that foreign editor Loren Jenkins referred to Arabs as "rag heads" in a meeting--a claim NPR has acknowledged by disciplining Jenkins. But NPR managing editor Bill Buzenberg insists that Khalid "got to Cairo and never applied himself...