Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...original indictment, but after he suffered a heart attack last June, the prosecution agreed to try him at a later date. That trial is scheduled for July, but it is unlikely it will ever be held. For his part, Theodore Geiser, attorney for the Schiavone company, is reviving a suit for damages he filed two years ago against Merola, accusing the D.A. of publicly making prejudicial statements about the defendants beyond what was charged in the indictment...
FOOTNOTE: *Ronald Schiavone also is pursuing a libel suit, against TIME (Donovan is not a party) involving an article published in 1982. New Jersey Federal Judge H. Lee Sarokin dismissed the suit last November. A Schiavone appeal of the dismissal is expected to come up for argument in the Third Circuit Court of Appeals this fall...
...flower girl; look close, and there is a jungle of fibers that came from the cuffs on your least favorite trousers. She has done four studies of her aged mother, who has been ravaged by Alzheimer's disease. In one there is a woman toddling along in a jogging suit, and in another there is a bent-down crone who has lost her mind...
...arrangement would suit the founder, who in his will avoided giving his sons control of the company. Besides, why should any of the Hearsts be unhappy? Five are listed among Forbes' 400 richest Americans, and the company is prospering. No longer synonymous only with tabloid sensationalism and the gaudy splendors of San Simeon, the firm seems intent on making a good corporate name for itself by sponsoring a seven-part PBS series called The Presidency and the Constitution. William Randolph Hearst Sr. would probably be pleased, but his father George would be even happier, glad that his son never took...
...that country. An estimated 1,400 U.S. firms, including General Motors, General Electric and Honeywell, use the plants to take advantage of a Mexican minimum wage that at current exchange rates is less than 40 cents an hour. Japanese companies like Sony, Sanyo Electric and Hitachi have followed suit, and the resulting boom is transforming border towns like Juarez into bustling industrial centers...