Word: weren
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jurors claimed that there were no racial elements in their decision and that no one should read such implications into it. "We were doing nothing more than what we were charged by the judge to do," said Juror Diana Serpe. "We weren't trying to send a message to the public...
...That day on the subway . . . you weren't wearing that nice suit and tie, were you?" Slotnick demanded...
...plant and equipment, while licensing arrangements do not. Some critics of apartheid, though, criticize companies for continuing to sell their products after divestiture. Says Marcy Murninghan, president of the social investment services division of Mitchell Investment: "Many of the American companies who said they were pulling out really weren't. These companies still benefit from a business involvement in South Africa...
...last year opted not to produce a video to go with its new album. But when sales lagged, the group released one belatedly, and business promptly picked up. "There's no doubt that its impact has leveled off," says Gil Friesen, president of A&M Records. "But if MTV weren't to survive, someone else would come along and reinvent...
...first it seems odd that something so irrelevent to the facts of the case would take up the not-so-valuable time of commentators on this month's not guilty verdict for Goetz. Weren't there enough actual problems raised by the case--questions of the applicability of confessions, and the bounds of self-defense--without dealing with the larger, tangential issues of racism? While the facts are crucial, there are also good reasons why critics have focussed on the hypothetical...