Word: settings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ship was ordered to set sail for California at 9 p.m., an hour before schedule. Squeezed for time, Hazelwood made several trips from the bridge to his cabin, say his attorneys, to labor over the cumbersome paperwork that had increasingly become his duty because of crew cutbacks. He returned to the bridge at roughly 11:15 p.m., shortly before the state's harbor pilot, following routine, departed from the ship at Rocky Point. Soon thereafter Hazelwood radioed the Coast Guard to say he would move the vessel from the outbound shipping lane to the inbound shipping lane to avoid...
...state supreme court judge compared the damage from the spill to the destruction of Hiroshima. Hazelwood was held overnight in a lockup with more than 50 other prisoners, many of them accused or convicted murderers, armed robbers and drug dealers. When his cellmates learned that his bond had been set at $1 million (and bail at $500,000), they broke into laughter and shook their heads in disbelief. The next day another state supreme court justice ruled that the bail was "unconstitutionally excessive," and reduced...
...Foreman be serious? What kind of odds would Vegas put on him against Iron Mike Tyson, the current titleholder? Boxing does not take kindly to reruns by its geriatric set. Witness Joe Louis, Joe Frazier, Larry Holmes and Ali. Foreman, the boxer turned preacher, is older than the other ex-champs who tried in vain to return. Some of them embarrassed themselves. Some of them got flattened. Boxing experts snicker that there are only two kinds of opponents Foreman can be counted on to defeat. One kind is hooked up to a respirator. The other can be found lying...
...matter, but a number of legal experts said they doubted that Allen's ruling would be overturned. The Supreme Court, they noted, has generally upheld Delaware's "business judgment rule," and has been even more forceful than the Chancery Court in giving corporate directors broad freedom to set long-range policy for their companies. Stanford University law professor Ronald Gilson disagrees with the ruling because he feels shareholders should have more rights in takeover battles, but he doubts the decision will be overturned: "If the Paramount arguments were not persuasive to Allen, one would not expect them to be persuasive...
Amid the arguments in the bitter struggle, court documents filed in Delaware gave a vivid picture of the two-year merger talks between Time and Warner. A Time brief showed that the two partners broke off negotiations in August 1988 over Time's insistence that Warner Chairman Steven Ross set a date for stepping down as co-chief executive of the merged company to make way for Time President N.J. Nicholas to hold the chief executive's job alone. Not until Ross agreed last January to step aside five years after the merger were the talks able to proceed...