Word: suit
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...wounded wisdom of a fine country thrush? Singers from Patsy Cline to Patty Loveless have lent their vocal courage and frazzled hearts to plaints about love with the wrong kind of guy. They are what has kept Nashville pulsing through decades of shifting fashion. But the town didn't suit Kelly Willis. After a few albums in the early '90s, she split for Austin, Texas. Her new CD, What I Deserve (Rykodisc), puts a sultry Lone Star spin on the country sound. This cowgirl can sing the blues as if she'd grown up inside them...
Such diktats, however, do not seem to apply to the DOJ suit, potentially the grimmest piece of news Microsoft has received in its 24-year existence. "This antitrust thing will blow over," a lackadaisical Gates told Intel executives back in 1995. When the government's complaint finally hit his desk in 1998, according to his own testimony, the software titan refused to read a word of it. Given the chance to reassess his videotaped Q. and A. in the light of its disastrous courtroom debut, CEO Gates conceded only that he should have "smiled a bit." As Gates the author...
...there ever was a time for Microsoft employees to slap their boss with a reality check, this is it. The antitrust trial is on a six-week hiatus. Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson urged the two sides to come up with a settlement in the interim. Intel settled its suit with the FTC last week before the case even went to court, sidestepping the kind of white-hot publicity that has roasted Microsoft. And yet the only word to come out of Redmond is a leaked memo from Microsoft lawyer David Heiner to the executive team. Shunning all evidence...
...case of cloak-and-dagger, it's sometimes hard to tell exactly who's snookering whom. Four Pillars recently turned the tables and filed suit in China and Taiwan, charging that in the late '80s and early '90s, Avery lured the much smaller Four Pillars (annual sales: $140 million) into discussion about a joint venture in China in order to steal manufacturing information so it could set up its own competing factory. Intriguingly, Four Pillars will argue that by luring the government into the case and helping the FBI set up a sting operation, Avery used the Economic Espionage...
...suggested that, in some cases, publicizedsuicides can prompt other students to follow suit...