Word: shock
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...astonished in January when a federal jury of two men and eight women found Eastman Kodak Co. guilty of monopolistic practices in a case brought by New York-based Berkey Photo, Inc., a relatively small competitor. When the same jury last week fixed the penalty, the reaction was genuine shock. Kodak, said the jurors, should pay Berkey $37.6 million in damages-and that was just the beginning. Because standard procedure is to triple damages for violation of antitrust law, the court is expected to raise the award to $112.8 million, one of the largest judgments ever against a U.S. corporation...
...country almost inured to brazen violence, the abduction of so lofty a public official sent Italy reeling in shock. The government quickly launched the biggest man hunt in postwar history. Thousands of police, joined by 30,000 Italian troops, threw a cordon around the capital. Roadblocks were set up on all highways out of Rome. Homes and apartments of suspected radicals were searched, countless youths stopped and quizzed...
...speak Saturday night for nothing." He was referring to a persuasive election-eve address on national television. A victory for the deeply divided leftist parties could not ensure a stable government in France, he warned. Moreover, "though the French economy has improved, it is still very fragile. The shock that would be caused by the implementation of the [leftist] promises would plunge it into a far worse crisis than we have thus far experienced." Finally, in an appeal to his compatriots' traditional distrust of the Germans, Giscard predicted that under leftist rule a weakened France would soon be economically...
...Navy, which thought it was close to a settlement with General Dynamics, the move came as a shock. The Navy immediately threatened legal action. Most likely, it will seek a court injunction ordering General Dynamics to continue building the submarines. The Los Angeles class (SSN 688) nuclear subs are sleek 360-ft. vessels designed to attack surface ships and other submarines, and are the U.S.'s answer to a relatively new class of Soviet subs. Only two of the submarines involved in the General Dynamics contract have been delivered; the remaining 16 are in various stages of construction...
...week at a fund raiser for the Equal Rights Amendment. The ERA, she told the audience, assures women in the U.S. "only the fundamental human rights." As for Italian women: "They've [just] gone from basic black to blue jeans and marching, from the Middle Ages to future shock. Italian men are in shock...