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...pistol. In fact, it even has the same name as a pistol. GM denies any connection to the famed brand of Italian guns favored by both the fictitious James Bond and the very real U.S. Army. But last week Italy's Fabbrica d'Armi P. Beretta of Brescia fired off a $250 million suit against GM in Manhattan, charging that the automaker was guilty of trademark infraction and unfair competition...
Jackson is suing the University and Dean of the Business School John H. McArthur, charging that she was denied tenure because she is a woman. Jackson is asking Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, Jr. to award her a tenured post, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income. If she succeeds, Jackson will become the fifth woman to join the school's tenured ranks throughout its 80-year history, and one of four women currently among the school's senior faculty...
...trial concluded last month and a verdict on Jackson's request for tenure, attorney fees and $847,000 in lost income is expected to be handed down next month by Federal Judge Douglas P. Woodlock, Jr. If the judge finds in her favor, Jackson will become the fifth woman tenured in the history of the 80-year-old B-School, and one of four women among the school's current 90-member senior faculty...
Mayer defines markets the old-fashioned way -- as mechanisms for the efficient allocation of resources -- and so looks on "buying the market" (playing the S&P 500, for example) as an unproductive distortion of the system. "What made stock markets important in an economy," he writes, "was their transmission of investors' judgments as to which industries and which companies were most likely to thrive and thus should find it easiest to raise fresh money. For professionals to invest huge pools without exercising that sort of judgment subverted some part of the legitimacy of market capitalism...
...young driver with Irish political connections hit a campaign car accompanying Dukakis' own from a TV station. When Dukakis rushed to the hospital and saw one aide's head all bloodied, the normally controlled candidate fainted. That aide recovered, but another one in the same car died. Judge Jerome P. Troy, who was later disbarred, assigned the drunken-driving case to a special judge, who let the driver...