Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...when David Boies got the news in the Justice Department's war room. Not only was the world's richest man personally accusing him, the government's lead attorney in the Microsoft antitrust case, of trying to destroy his company, but one of the 20 states backing the suit--South Carolina--had also switched sides. As usual, Boies was almost the last to know; he learned about it when a reporter dialed his cell phone looking for a quote. "I find out a lot of what's going on in this case from journalists," jokes the veteran attorney...
Allegation 1: that Francis Albert dodged the draft. Ridiculous. Everyone knows he was in both the Army and the Navy during World War II. You've seen him singing and dancing in a sailor suit while on shore leave. And you saw the tragic fight he waged while trying to defend Pearl Harbor against Ernest Borgnine. Some may say, "But those were just movies," but that's the point! It was Frank's obligation as a celebrity to keep morale high on the home front. That is what we ask of our stars during wartime, not to become cannon fodder...
...million in North America, and Hanks was suddenly the new surefire romantic-comedy guy. In three years he did seven films, mostly raffish comedies. It took Penny Marshall's Big (Break No. 3) to change that. Now he was so hot he was cast in roles that didn't suit him, like Sherman McCoy in The Bonfire of the Vanities or the thinks-he's-going-to-die hero of Joe versus the Volcano...
...does Hoffa propose to go where Congress wouldn't? Sources close to Hoffa say his first act as president-elect was to give the go-ahead for a multimillion-dollar civil-racketeering suit against, among others, the D.N.C. The suit would primarily target disgraced former Teamsters president RON CAREY and other Teamsters officials for allegedly embezzling nearly $1 million in cash from the union. But it would also cite top Democratic fund raisers, including TERRENCE MCAULIFFE, who was recently appointed chief fund raiser for Al Gore. A federal probe into Carey's 1996 election as union president found that...
...other pending legal actions against Microsoft -- such as the so-called permatemp suit, a class action suit brought by a group of disgruntled temporary workers -- may have a greater chance of realizing concrete gains, one could also argue that the suit has had a galvanizing affect on the industry as a whole: Witness the dramatic AOL-Netscape deal, and the renewed interest in wacky, alternative computing strategies, such as the free operating system Linux and the so-called networked computer. However long the trial may drag on, in just nine weeks it has already changed the face of history...