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These and similar actions are fertilized by new rules of comparative negligence that allow a plaintiff to recover damages in a lawsuit even if he is partly at fault; this means, for example, that a drunk driver who demolishes an illegally parked car can claim some damages from the defendant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Exculpations Crybabies: Eternal Victims | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Start packing the shoes -- Imelda Marcos is free to go home. For the past five years, the exiled wife of former Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos has been barred from her native land by President Corazon Aquino's coup-plagued regime. But last week Manila lifted the ban so it could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: You Can Go Home Again | 8/12/1991 | See Source »

Even so, Assad's move underlines the extent to which once unfriendly countries are concluding that it is prudent to please the U.S., the world's sole remaining superpower. The Syrian President had long been a client of the Soviet Union and a leader of the rejectionist Arab states that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Why Assad Saw the Light | 7/29/1991 | See Source »

Remarkably enough, the nuclear building program has withstood the two great shocks of the atomic era. The 1979 near meltdown at Three Mile Island spawned new safety regulations. The catastrophe at Chernobyl in 1986 set off a public outcry in most of Western Europe, forcing some governments to curtail nuclear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ambitions on A Grand Scale | 7/22/1991 | See Source »

Finally, after nearly a month of payless paydays, the entire 11-member Clio staff quit at the end of May. The bizarre banquet now seems like a wake for a Madison Avenue institution. Don Catterson, a new Clio spokesman, blames the company's collapse on staff intrigues and predicts Clio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising The Collapse Of Clio | 7/1/1991 | See Source »

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