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...Disco didn't really cross over until '77, when the BeeGees made it safe for the multititudes with the breakout tracks on "Saturday Night Fever". But by '76, here's what they were asking for in the dance clubs: Vickie Sue Robinson's "Turn the Beat Around"; Silver Convention's "Get Up and Boogie"; Donna Summer's "Love Trilogy" (an LP, and every cut was getting played); The Trammps' "That's Where the Happy People Go"; and the fabulous Andrea True's "More More More" (a tune that will never be removed from my desert-island jukebox...
...Thursday, say the sources, NASA conceded it could not dictate Russia's budget, and NASA representative Bill MacArthur brought legal documents to Tito, who is now in Moscow training with his fellow cosmonauts. Essentially, the deal pledged that Tito or his survivors would not sue NASA if anything goes wrong. "It also requires that he pay for anything he breaks," says a source close to the millionaire. The founder of the Wilshire Fund quickly scribbled his name. Now with his ticket to ride, Tito appears assured of a seat atop a flaming cylinder of explosives as it rockets him into...
Second, the FTAA, like NAFTA, would expand the jurisdiction of trade agreements well beyond the traditional realm of tariffs: corporations can sue foreign governments for taking “measures tantamount to nationalization or expropriation” of an investment. Such measures can include health, safety, environmental and labor protection laws. Who gets to decide which laws and regulations are “tantamount to expropriation”? Under NAFTA and under the would-be FTAA, when an investor sues a government the case is submitted not to a national court but to an international tribunal that holds private proceedings...
...ability of nations to preclude private competition (foreign or domestic) for government services. Such a provision, coupled with an investor-state dispute clause as in NAFTA, would enable transnational service corporations to compete for the full range of government services covered by the agreement and allow them to sue for compensation any government that denies them “market access.” To cite one implication, this would potentially spell an end to nationalized health care in Canada or any other nation signatory to the FTAA...
...brought Harvey's case under a 1983 federal civil rights statute that offers a remedy to citizens whose constitutional rights are violated. The law gives a client the right to sue for injunctive relief - and in this case, the relief in question was access to DNA testing...