Word: memorandums
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Many tobacco executives swore otherwise when testifying before Representative Henry Waxman's health subcommittee in 1994, but consistency has never been central to the industry's legal defense--overwhelming force has. As RJ Reynolds lawyer J. Michael Jordan put it in a 1988 memorandum, "To paraphrase General Patton, the way we won those cases was not by spending all of Reynolds' money but by making that other son of a bitch spend all his." Liggett Group, for instance, spent an estimated $75 million fighting the Cipollone case in New Jersey; though the jury awarded the husband of Rose Cipollone...
Shortly before the Thanksgiving break, a memorandum from athletic director William J. Cleary '56-'58 arrived in the mailboxes of every fall intercollegiate athlete. The subject of this particular notice was an evaluation of the Harvard athletic program...
Athletic director Cleary's memorandum was perfectly, rather than poorly, timed. Since the demolition of Carey Cage, athletes are thinking seriously about the quality of the athletic program and are concerned for the future...
...level of "expensive, personalized service," says Kirdar, that Investcorp's competitors can't match. Investcorp's success in the Middle East may also be due to its marketing documents, which are not overseen by Western regulatory agencies. The contrast is striking between an Investcorp private-placement memorandum and a prospectus approved by the Securities and Exchange Commission. The SEC-approved prospectus for Gucci is filled with warnings and disclaimers, including a section on "risk factors" that runs 3 1/2 pages. A Saks private-placement memorandum circulated to mostly Arab investors discusses risk factors in less than a page...
...Carnesale and Proctor co-authored a March 23 discussion memorandum on the issue. The recommendations in that memo formed the basis for the University's new policy--and it is those recommendations, some committee members say, that run contrary to the spirit of the report released four months later...