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...pileup of confusions that those reforms might clear away is obvious from Adler's description of the 1989 lawsuit that Liggett & Myers, the giant tobacco company, brought against Brown & Williamson, a rival that Liggett accused of unfair competition. After an eight-month trial that hinged on notions like "predatory price discrimination" and "price-value submarkets," jurors had to rely on memory alone to recall testimony that filled 108 volumes. The judge's 81-page instructions gave them such helpful hints as this one: "You may wish to reject an inference of predatory intent if you find that a substantial motivation...
Quite a three-car pileup, and he can show the scars to prove it. He wound up finishing six seconds behind the eventual winner...
...that by the end of the 66-minute Exploder opus you'll probably have moved from wondering how anyone could use a Mellotron sound on a rock record at all in 1994 to wondering why that sound doesn't crop up on every new indie release. The post Pepper pileup reaches its peak on "Saturday's Cool," which may be the most excruciatingly self-concious "underground rock" song I've ever heard: the breaks in between the verses are note-for-note or word-for-word quotes from the songs Eggs listened to ten years ago, meaning not cool obscure...
After graduation, he decided to give professional football a try. He made the 33-man Philadelphia Eagles roster and became a solid receiver for the team--when a teammate stepped on his hand during a pileup, breaking his fingers. It was then, after getting married, that he decided to give coaching...
...that it was his self-imposed Christmas deadline on filling his Cabinet that led him to pick Zoe Baird as Attorney General. When he decided this week to postpone announcing his health-care plan until mid-June, he did so because he doesn't want to have a legislative pileup. But he also admitted, says an aide, that "getting it right is more important than getting it out on time...