Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While today's announcement is not binding--a detailed legal document is still in the works--it sets forth a series of general principles that have been agreed upon by the two institutions after more than a year's worth of closed-door negotiations...
...signing of a legal contract at an unspecified future date would end Radcliffe's status as an independent institution. Since 1977, Radcliffe has maintained its own land, endowment and an administrative structure answerable only to its own self-perpetuating Board of Trustees...
...cousin who just located Solomon Seif's burial place in Galion, Ohio, noticed on the gravestone that he had been a Civil War soldier. Konecny made note of that on a scrap of yellow legal-pad paper, and now she is spending a day at the Archives. She has been working on her German and French-Canadian family tree for 10 years, determined "to take all my family on both sides back to where they came from...
...December 1997 using the logo on the left. The one on the right belongs to Disney's Go Network, which made its online debut just last January. "We think Disney was well aware of our logo and consciously went forward with theirs," says O'Donnell, noting that in legal papers filed in early stages of GoTo's lawsuit, Disney named Eisner a "Person most knowledgeable" on how the image was selected. "They've offered us [a settlement] in the millions. We turned them down," says O'Donnell, who has won rights cases against Paramount (ART BUCHWALD's Coming to America...
...inevitable that Y2K glitches--caused by the inability of some computer hardware and software to read years after 1999--would keep lawyers busy well into the next century. What's surprising is just how fast the suits are coming: at least 78 so far, as many as 800 legal disputes proceeding to formal negotiations, and a few large settlements, including one for $7.5 million. If lawyers are this active now, how bad will it get when the year 2000 actually arrives? Lloyds of London insurance has predicted claims worldwide could exceed $1 trillion...