Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit accusing him of illegal stock transactions involving seven companies, including his 1988 takeover of Singer. The charges range from lying to the SEC about how he financed his raids to trying to hide the number of shares he owned. In its suit, the SEC asks for repayment of more than $31 million in allegedly illegal profits. While denying the new charges, Bilzerian last week resigned as chairman of Singer, a post he had held for just 18 months...
...recognized that many baby boomers did not want to have to choose between their travel fantasies and time with their children. By introducing Baby Clubs, Mini Clubs and children's programs at 40 locations worldwide, Club Med has become a leader in family vacations. Other luxury resorts have followed suit. The Village at Smugglers' Notch in Vermont even offers a money-back guarantee: "If your child for some reason doesn't enjoy all the activities we have planned, we will refund that portion of your package...
Where Batman appears dark and impenetrable, his nemesis the Joker (Jack Nicholson) is just the opposite. Nicholson wears a bright orange and purple suit that stands out from the Gotham cityscape. Dressed like that, the Joker is not about to disappear into the fog. And Nicholson's face, wrenched into a permanent parody of a grin (the result of being dropped, by Batman, into a vat of toxic chemicals), is a perfect complement to Keaton's expressionless mask...
...mayor of Detroit, Coleman Young copes mainly with tedious municipal problems. But last January the monotony was interrupted: a paternity suit named the 71-year-old Young as father of Joel Loving, 6, born in 1982 to Annivory Calvert, 34. She claimed Young was her exclusive lover from 1981 to 1987. Twice divorced and unmarried, Young handled the allegation deftly. True, he was needled with jokes like the bumper sticker that said HONK IF YOU'RE MAYOR YOUNG'S SON. Still, after three blood tests indicated paternity, Young vowed to live up to his responsibilities. So the story faded...
...friendly hands, and it gives Time a head start in its acquisition of Warner shares. Time also asked a federal court in New York City to halt the Paramount bid on the grounds that it reflected a "campaign of deception and manipulation" to derail the Time-Warner merger. The suit alleged that Paramount feared the competitive impact of a Time-Warner combination and was intent on keeping such a merger from taking place. Said Nicholas: "I'm convinced that Paramount's was a spoiler...