Word: suit
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...Wall Street, honing his skills as a diplomat and a dealmaker. Still, some found it surprising that he should be picked for this critical assignment. Over the years, he had won a reputation for fierce ambition and abrasive self-promotion. His ego and aggressiveness, it was said, did not suit the delicate job of constructing a Balkan peace settlement. As one colleague put it, Holbrooke is like "a bull who takes his own china shop with...
...were fortunate, praise the Lord, but this is not over," says Roberson. He intends to file a civil suit against the state, seeks the release of those in prison and supports a local campaign to have the U.S. Justice Department investigate. Indeed, Attorney General Janet Reno has asked her civil rights division to review the case under laws against misusing public office to deprive citizens of their due-process rights; a report is due after Christmas. But it is unclear whether the proofs necessary to convict Perez and others are available in Wenatchee. A state appeals court may free those...
...security fraud lawsuits. The Senate action, which follows a similar House vote Wednesday, assures that the securities bill will become law. Republicans had spearheaded the push for veto-proof passage because the bill limits attorney fees and can force the losing party to pay fees and costs if the suit proves frivolous. Powerful leaders of high-technology firms backed the bill, one part of which shields executives from lawsuits if they make public statements, such as earnings projections, that later prove to be wrong. But Clinton, who yielded to intense lobbying from liberal Democrats, trial attorneys and consumer groups, said...
...keeps a scrapbook of all the candidates, containing pictures of himself posing with everyone from Gary Hart (who in 1984 came with a plastic bag filled with a thousand $1 bills) to Georgiana Doerschuck, an elegant widow in a pink Chanel suit who wants to require mothers to stay home with their children. "The little guy who doesn't have a lot of money can still come here and start up a campaign," he says. "We give the same courtesy to the Hemp Lady as to Bob Dole." Four years ago, 62 people were on the ballot, a New Hampshire...
Winter said the most controversial images, such as "Man in a Polyester Suit," are not in the University's slide collection and thus have not been shown in class...