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Word: suit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...proposed bill would encourage mediation and give companies a 90-day period to fix a computer glitch before a plaintiff could file suit. There would be a punitive-damages cap for small businesses, and companies would be held liable only for the portion of damage they cause. ?Both sides would get something,? says TIME senior writer Adam Cohen. Industry would get some protections, but, he says ?the bill would still leave a lot of room for people to go to court.? Some key Democrats, however, want the President to keep insisting that that room be kept as large as possible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Washington Struggles to Work Out Bugs in Y2K Liability | 6/29/1999 | See Source »

...time. Instead, he will probably plead to a lesser charge and agree to a financial settlement. Such a deal would come with a hefty price tag: Stoute could pocket a payment of anywhere from $1 million on up in exchange for agreeing not to file a civil suit. But even if Combs' legal problems are disposed of, there will be lingering questions: Why would one of hip-hop's smartest executives attack a rival and risk jail? What lit his fuse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Puff Daddy: In the Eye of a Storm | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...GORE] Blue business suit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: My Fellow Americanos... | 6/28/1999 | See Source »

...that's wrong.' It appears off the cuff, but it was kind of scientific and took hours to get right." Some over-the-top bits were chopped from the movie, many involving a grotesque adversary named Fat Bastard. Portrayed by Myers in an 80-lb. blubber suit that required hours to apply, the character was so foul that women at preview audiences were nauseated, not to mention Graham. "The worst was when he ate all this food and then spit on me," she says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Austin's Power | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

...family and will therefore be the highest-rated show ever, because every Nielsen family will watch it." That meeting went poorly, only partly because I was distracted by the UPN office, which is bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. Let me repeat that: bright, cheerful and contains a life-size bronze statue of Sherman Hemsley in a bell-bottom suit holding a piece of pie. You try to pitch a sitcom after seeing that. This might explain the UPN lineup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Man Show Cometh | 6/21/1999 | See Source »

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