Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...made, "clearly violated his fiduciary duties to McGraw-Hill and the stockholders ... by misappropriating confidential information and conspiring with American Express" to acquire McGraw-Hill on the cheap. McGraw wound up with a threat to sue Morley, Amexco and each Amexco director. The next day McGraw and Lipton filed suit asking for $500 million in damages should Amexco be successful...
...19th century English Luddites smashed machines in a doomed effort to preserve the jobs of textile workers. California Rural Legal Assistance, a federally subsidized antipoverty group, does not go quite that far. But last week it filed suit in a state court in Oakland seeking to enjoin the University of California from using state money to develop farm machines. The C.R.L.A. charges that the introduction of more modern mechanical tomato, grape and lettuce pickers will primarily benefit large growers and will cost 120,000 California farm laborers their jobs...
...most productive in the world, and holds down costs so much that Americans spend a smaller proportion of their incomes for food than do the citizens of any other major country. Instead of fighting this progress, C.R.L.A. might do better to stress another demand in its suit: that the university use some of its license and royalty income from development of farm machines to set up a fund to retrain farm workers displaced by the machines...
...other times, though, the messages seem lost in transit. For instance, Groffo dances on a table at Dave's baptism. He flails about in a russet suit on an orange tablecloth, only to fall on an orange roast pig which has an orange in its mouth and is lit by orange candles at its head. For Groffo to fall on the pig is appropriate but for everything to be orange makes no sense...
...state what to do; it just says what the state cannot do: it cannot stuff ten men into a cell built for two; it cannot provide one toilet per 200 inmates; it cannot ware house mental patients like old furniture. Sometimes that is enough. One Massachusetts judge, hearing a suit protesting pris on conditions, took state authorities on a tour of the prison and asked: "You're sure you really want to defend this case?" The state did not, and (wisely) accepted a consent decree to fix the place up. More often, the state does nothing, and the judge...