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...could to nullify the contract and win back the business, luring away employees from the Atlanta unit to the Macon, Ga., division he retained, shifting lucrative contracts between companies, threatening to destroy financial records and "to build billboards in front of theirs." Turner ultimately persuaded the buyers to rescind the deal in exchange for $200,000 worth of stock in the company...
This incident alone provides more than sufficient grounds for CUNY to rescind Jeffries's tenure for his conduct unbecoming of a faculty member...
...about $1.7 million -- of Salomon stock before the scandal went public. The timing of the sell-off is crucial; Mozer could be charged with violating insider-trading regulations. Through his attorney, Mozer denies that he "sold the shares based on insider information" but also says he is willing to rescind the sale. Salomon's common stock has plummeted about 20% since the first bad news broke, so that could cost him hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...Hillel refuses these logically parallel requests, then we would ask them to rescind their censure of AALARM. It appears that AALARM has run up against the Politically Correct monolith at Harvard. Hillel is but one of many groups and individuals who have disregarded traditional values in pursuit of temporal gratification, whether it be sexual pleasure or kudos from liberal groups and administrators. We understand, as AALARM's Jewish members are quick to point out, that the Hillel has been subverted by a radical faction which follows a political agenda while ignoring the true spirit of the Jewish faith. We hope...
...colors -- bright, sensuous, all enveloping -- tell the story of a young Chinese woman, her brutal husband and her timid lover. Fate enshrouds them, as it has Zhang Yimou's beautiful film: Ju Dou has never played publicly in China, and the authorities tried unsuccessfully to rescind its Oscar nomination as Best Foreign Film...