Word: settlements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Columbia for $3.4 billion and made plans to hire hit-making producers Peter Guber and Jon Peters (Rain Man, Batman) to run the studio. But the two men had signed an exclusive five-year deal to make movies for rival Warner. The two sides tried to negotiate a settlement, but last week both filed major lawsuits. Warner wants $1 billion for the loss of Guber and Peters, while Sony rejects Warner's claims and is asking for $100 million...
...Asian philosophy to Brazilian literature. "Look at this!" exults owner Andy Ross, demonstrating the proper passion. "We carry Thomas Mann! We have all of Dickens!" Ross sued two mass-market % publishers who, he claimed, discriminated against him by giving unfair discounts to chains. He won an out-of-court settlement but still argues that chains, with their narrow stock of titles and widespread outlets, "limit the availability of ideas in our culture...
...Miller, an ACLU director who is coordinating the settlement, concedes that compromise might be the only realistic alternative for pro-choice groups. "The very fact that the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case means you have a chance of losing," he is reported as saying. "And you also lose control. You don't know where the Court is going to go with this...
NEGOTIATING a settlement out of court is a tried-and-true way to avoid a lengthy and expensive trial in civil cases. Through negotiations, litigants have been able to develop compromises acceptable to both parties, and avoid a definitive ruling on a complicated issue...
...spiral of bloodletting, which began in November, escalated last week, when landowners raided a mining camp, killing four people and setting houses ablaze. An angry mob from the settlement retaliated by slaughtering a Bougainvillean woman and her baby and torching her home. So far 39 have died in the dispute...