Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the Business School awaits the verdict in a four-year-old gender discrimination lawsuit that has brought heightened attention to the role women play across the River, the venerable graduate school appears to be quietly steering a new course in its teaching of ethics...
...keeping his eye on the ball has finally got Bush "there." Getting to the next step -- re-election in '92 and then to a consensus verdict that he has been an effective President -- is going to require an even more disciplined devotion to competence over ideology. For although Bush has said, "We're coming in to build on the proud accomplishments of the past, ((not)) to correct ((its)) ills," a failure to redress the Reagan era's greatest ill could consign this President to political oblivion. Ironically, given his insistence that the key lesson to be learned from Reagan...
...N.F.L. for antitrust violations. One league member recalls Trump saying that "everything he had been involved with had been successful, and he would be damned if the U.S.F.L. was going to be his first failure." Trump's league sued the N.F.L. for $1.7 billion, won the verdict but received only a symbolic $3 in damages. Trump called that a moral victory even as the "victorious" league disintegrated...
...late November, Hampton sentenced Richard Lee Bednarski to 30 years in prison for murdering two men--even though a lifetime sentence was the maximum. When asked by a Dallas reporter why Bednarski had not received a harsher verdict, Hampton replied that he had been lenient in part because the killer's victim were...
...relish testifying that her job and the judge's ruling in Capasso's divorce were no coincidence. Yet the obviously unstable Sukhreet came across like an indulged child desperate for attention. Judge John Keenan twice instructed the jurors on "reasonable doubt," and after four days they returned with a verdict: not guilty. Myerson brushed away tears and kissed Gabel. Then she walked past the cameras, smiling...