Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gave bear stroking a try. It did not work. Despite our extraordinary deference to Russian national feelings, the antireform and anti-Western parties did exceptionally well in free elections. Yeltsin is accommodating to reality. Time for us to follow suit...
Sources in the MICHAEL JACKSON camp say they want to make "this case go away" and confirm that the civil suit against the singer for alleged child abuse may be settled out of court as early as Jan. 25. Under the terms of the agreement, Jackson will maintain his innocence and the boy will agree not to talk. Under California law a juvenile cannot be compelled to testify, so he will be out of the reach of prosecutors. Reports of a $30 million deal are "preposterous" say sources; some speculate the boy will get $5 million in cash...
...coach brought a suit for $70 million. Thankfully, he lost...
...same could be said of this light novel about such weighty notions as justice and law. Gaddis' chief litigant is Oscar Crease, a self-described "last civilized man" who brings suit to prove that his high-minded (and unproduced) stage play was stolen by the producers of a big-screen Civil War blood spurter that features "the most widely discussed mass rape scene in screen history." Crease is also suing his insurance company, which isn't paying him for injuries suffered when his stalled car suddenly ran over him. His father, a cagey federal judge, is hearing the case...
...wrote to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, which had temporarily taken responsibility for dealing with failed thrifts, seeking a contract for Rose to represent the regulators. Rose in fact got the business, and Webster Hubbell, a partner who has since become Associated U.S. Attorney General, brought a $6 million suit on behalf of the regulators against Madison's accountants; he settled for $1 million...