Word: suit
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...hour, or 90 minutes at most. More importantly, they give students the chance to hear an introductory lecture as it should be heard: with their full attention and without the pressure that comes from wanting to be in many places at the same time. If other professors followed suit, the first week of each semester would be more manageable in the short run, and quite possibly more fruitful in the long...
...simplest charge to emerge against Clinton is that he perjured himself at his deposition in Paula Jones' civil suit when he reportedly denied having an affair with Lewinsky. But this turns out not to be a simple charge at all. "It's like Nixon used to say: Perjury is a tough rap to prove," says Duke law professor Sara Sun Beale. Much would depend on the precise words Clinton used in his deposition, and he has proved adept at phrasing answers with lawyerly attention to detail. The statement, "There is no sexual relationship," for example, could...
...prosecutor appointed to unravel a land deal (remember Whitewater?) bootstraps himself into a civil suit and thereby compels testimony about the most intimate matters, we will soon have a government that can get to anyone. Everyone has something embarrassing to hide. When we aren't all dealing with a President we're ready to string up, this unfettered intrusion may be what haunts us most. What a Hobbesian choice: lie and face prison or tell the truth and face public humiliation. The perjury follows, even though the act--reprehensible though it might be--did not flow from official duty...
...issue was whether forcing PC vendors that license Microsoft's Windows95 to take Explorer as well constitutes product "tying"--a violation of the consent decree signed by Microsoft in 1995. After Joel Klein, the Justice Department's antitrust chief, reopened Justice's dormant suit against Microsoft, U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a preliminary injunction forbidding Microsoft to engage in Explorer strong-arming. This in turn produced Microsoft's infamously petulant response: offering to sell versions of Windows that didn't have Explorer but didn't work either. After showing in court that it took less than 90 seconds...
Alice E. Richmond, the attorney representingJohnson-Powell, said ABPN officials have been"very aggressive in their wish to destroy[Johnson-Powell]," and mentioned sexism as apossible motive in the ABPN suit, according to TheGlobe...