Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Scotch verdict for Donovan
...unsatisfying end last week. Less than a month after reopening his inquiry, Special Prosecutor Leon Silverman closed the case, saying, "I have been unable to corroborate the allegations made against him with sufficient credible evidence." But the prosecutor's exoneration of Donovan was something like the Scotch verdict of "not proven." Said Silverman: "I was, and I continue to be, concerned by the sheer number of allegations...
Specifically, Perry says Atkinson impregnated her in mid-1977, talked her into having a wrenching abortion, and then broke his firm pledge to impregnate her again. What's more, he's predicting a "precedent-setting" verdict in Perry's favor that he says will encourage other betrayed lovers to undertake similar suits. A victory for Perry, Mitchelson says, would also deter men from making false promises to mistresses to escape embarassing predicaments...
...aware of high unemployment and rising bankruptcies. But they differ widely on how much to blame Reagan and his party, if at all. Brenda Pace, who lost her $300-a-week job as a supervisor at Hudson's department store in Detroit, delivers a two-word verdict on Reaganomics: "It stinks...
...political police. This mentality causes officials, from the senior clergy down to the Islamic militiamen, to be corrupt. Everyone is trying to make as much as possible within the shortest time in order to escape before the day of reckoning. Everything is for sale. Any arrest, court order or verdict is negotiable. When rich people-that is, what's left of them-are arrested for whatever reason, a multiplicity of "family friends" turn up, offering to arrange for their release...