Word: suit
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...would open up the floodgates for an enormous redistribution of wealth. The courts are more comfortable leaving these matters up to the legislative branch. Also, the political climate, which has low tolerance for things like affirmative action right now, isn't exactly ripe for this kind of lawsuit." The suit, which was drafted by the Reparations Committee for African Americans, sought more than $100 million...
Chrysler filed suit against Lee Iacocca, claiming that its former chairman helped a failed takeover bid by disgruntled shareholder Kirk Kerkorian. The automaker says Iacocca, who retired in 1992 but stayed on for two more years as a $500,000-a-year consultant, gave confidential corporate information to Kerkorian during the Las Vegas billionaire's push to take over the company last spring. The suit seeks to force Iacocca to repay Chrysler for money and services received since shortly after his retirement, when they say he began meeting with Kerkorian, and cites Iacocca's "exorbitant" $42,000-a-month...
...Above all, Salinas is concerned with his place in history," reports Latin America bureau chief Laura Lopez. "He also wants to clean up the family name. The attacks on him here have made him a villain in Mexican society. People are wearing masks with his picture in a jail suit. It's really nasty. But Salinas probably will testify. He's a tough guy who feels he can correct the perception people have of him." Salinas fled the country last spring after resigning from the presidency amid the collapse of the Mexican economy and his brother's arrest on murder...
...resembles his Jewish counterpart as a control freak. The movie's few merits lie in Zahedi's documentary-like style, which exposes the dynamics of his relationships with his father and sibling. The method of allowing events to unfold carries potential for rendering a great film, but doesn't suit the nervous, controlling filmmaker. This ill-suited union only succeeds in begetting a drawn-out series of irritating, contrived and poorly shot scenes of a man exhibiting his warts...
Harvard Medical School followed suit, revising its policy to require professors to list legal consulting work on their annual disclosure forms, Medical School spokesperson Keren R. McGinity said yesterday...