Word: suits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What was surprising? The suit itself, which was concerned not with questionable use of funds, but with giving funds to needy students. Finally, the government seemed to be taking an interest in the college applicant's financial status. Unfortunately, that interest was grossly misdirected...
...valued at $7.5 billion already on the table, QVC shopping-network chairman Barry Diller unveiled a staggering $9.5 billion counteroffer. Paramount stockholders could almost be heard sighing at the thought of their potential profits. In a counterassault with personal overtones, Viacom chairman Sumner Redstone fired back with an antitrust suit accusing one of Diller's chief backers, John Malone, the head of cable-TV powerhouse Tele-Communications Inc. (TCI), of monopolizing the cable industry...
...Lady in exchange for a nominal fee--and the promise of free publicity. Not wanting the image of cosmetic fussiness connected to the nation's Yankee grandmother, however, the White House skipped the publicity. The Grauxes, who can't get the Bushes to pay up, are expected to file suit...
...Abkhazian drive succeeds, it could mark the beginning of the ultimate dismemberment of Georgia as other ethnic minorities, bent on fulfilling their own dreams of independence, followed suit. Equally menacing to stability, an Abkhazian victory would demolish Shevardnadze's credibility as the only leader capable of holding the country together. That danger prompted him to issue a televised call to arms, appealing "to all men with guns to go to defend Sukhumi." Together with his physician, cook and the rest of his personal staff, Shevardnadze headed for the embattled city, pledging to remain with the defenders "until the last drop...
When the Justice Department first brought suit against the eight Ivy League schools and MIT in 1991 charging antitrust, the Ivy League schools, including Harvard, soon signed a decree consenting to the end of the practice of sharing information...