Word: verdicts
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...Instead, some easy, inexpensive changes make sense. Among them: use electric blankets only to warm beds before retiring, place the electric alarm clock across the room instead of by the bed and sit at least ten feet away from the television set. Above all, avoid excessive worrying. Until the verdict is in, the watchword is prudence, not panic...
...early 1988 the 38-year-old maverick managed to acquire defense contractor Singer by bidding for it when no one else would, right after the stock-market crash. Last week, however, Bilzerian finally made what will probably be his most lasting mark on Wall Street. In the first jury verdict to arise out of the Government's three-year crackdown on insider trading, Bilzerian was convicted on nine counts of securities fraud and tax violations...
...This week a Business School associate dean sends a memorandum to the school's faculty, telling them to avoid speaking to the press when the verdict in a gender discrimination suit filed against the school is finally announced. The verdict had been expected in a case filed by former associate professor of industrial marketing Barbara Bund Jackson '66. She claims she was denied tenure in 1983 because she is a woman...
Some questions are so fraught with political ambiguity that a criminal trial cannot answer them completely. One such conundrum: Who should be held accountable for the Iran-contra affair? Last week a jury in Washington rendered a judgment on retired Marine Lieut. Colonel Oliver North. But it was a verdict equivocal enough for both the defendant and the prosecutor to hail it. North proclaimed a "partial vindication" because he was found not guilty of nine felony charges. Prosecutor John W. Keker asserted that North's convictions on three other counts demonstrated "the principle that no man is above...
NATION: The trial of Oliver North ends with an equivocal verdict -- and plenty of questions for George Bush...