Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That bit of morbid humor refers to possible resentment by the Kerr-McGee Corp., a major energy conglomerate, over testimony Smith has given in a bitter trial. It is the celebrated $11.5 million negligence suit brought by the heirs of Karen Silkwood, a former employee at a Kerr-McGee plutonium-processing facility in nearby Crescent (pop. 1,568). She accused the company of being cavalier about worker safety, and then died at 28 in a still mysterious car accident in 1974. The trial, however, focuses on charges that Kerr-McGee was negligent in a series of plutonium contaminations that took...
...Frenchman's suit will not be the first of its kind heard in Soviet courts; particularly in the late 1950s and early 1960s, hundreds of citizens of the U.S.S.R. and many foreigners who had been unjustly imprisoned had filed successful damage claims against the government. Genrikh Rubezhov, 50, the Moscow lawyer assigned to Maloumian's case, has tried more than a score of similar suits and has won them...
...match up well against them, commented ruthlessly efficient derenseman Scott Pink, the senior member of the Crimson's strongest suit--defense. Pink and his companions Frank Prezioso and Haywood Miller, backed up by All-America goaltender Kenny First, have yielded less than seven goals a game since the season's opening disaster against top-ranked defending national champion Johns Hopkins...
...last fiscal year, and it is roughly four times larger than Brascan. To help finance the takeover, Brascan would have to borrow $700 million from the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, which by no small coincidence is also Woolworth's largest lending bank worldwide. In a suit to block the bid, Woolworth charged that Canadian Imperial would never lend such a sum to a company of Brascan's size unless the bank had confidential information about Woolworth's bright future prospects and was sharing the inside dope with Brascan...
...rejection was what led the Irwins to file suit. "It's sad that it had to come to this," says Ronald Irwin, "but years were going by and nothing was happening. For Tommy, it is already late." Indeed the Irwins soon received a supporting phone call from a teacher, herself the mother of a gifted child, who warned, "There is serious danger that such children can be permanently damaged by the time they are eight...