Word: verdicts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...1970s, when there were fewer than five malpractice suits filed annually for every 100 doctors. The A.M.A. report cites statistics from one large insurance company that in 1983 there were 16 malpractice suits filed for every 100 doctors. During 1974, according to data from Ohio's Jury Verdict Research Inc., there were only four malpractice awards in excess of $1 million. In 1983, by comparison, there were 70. The total value of awards to plaintiffs that year reached $2 billion...
...honor of yesterday's verdict in the Ariel Sharon case. The Crimson will not publish for the next four days. The Crimson will reappear Wednesday, under new, younger management...
Gould depicted Sharon as a "great and good man . . . an asset too precious to be defiled by lies and half-truths." He told the jury: "Your verdict will do much to determine whether he'll go down in history as a great man, a great soldier, a savior of his country or as a kind of monster, another Herod." Sharon's approval of the decision to send the Phalangists into the camps, he said, was made while "bullets were flying and guys were dying." Said Gould: "He's not making the kind of decisions you make as an editor...
...cover story, "The Verdict Is Guilty," TIME reported that Israel's official commission of inquiry found that Ariel Sharon, then Defense Minister, and several other military officials shared an "indirect" responsibility for the massacre by Lebanese Phalangist soldiers of hundreds of civilians in the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila that began two days after the assassination of Lebanese President-elect Bashir Gemayel. In one paragraph of its article, TIME reported that a secret appendix to the commission's published report--known as Appendix B--contained "further details about Sharon's visit to the Gemayel family...
...than anyone else in bringing peace to Lebanon's warring factions. Meanwhile, the Israeli population grew more and more weary with their occupation of southern Lebanon. With their economy in a tailspin (400% inflation then, more than 800% now), the Israelis delivered a mixed, and not very helpful, election verdict. Lacking a clear winner, the two rival blocs, Likud and Labor, set up an unusual arrangement in which the office of Prime Minister would change after 25 months. Shimon Peres, taking the first turn, adopted a clearly warmer tone than former Prime Minister Menachem Begin had toward...