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...filing "astronomical" claims, says the institute, the artful advocate earns pretrial newspaper publicity that gets prospective jurors psychologically prepared for huge verdicts. During the trial, the lawyer keeps repeating the "price," sometimes leaves it on a blackboard as a means of subliminal advertising. To woo jurors, the lawyer may suddenly decrease the price to show "fairness." In an equally dramatic maneuver, he may increase it to suggest that the plaintiff underestimated. Then, as Cleveland's Jury Verdict Research Inc. puts it: "The higher the amount of suit, the higher the point at which the jury begins its deliberations...
Only station WMEX continues to play the song, rating it number 18. Disc jockey Arnie "Woo Woo" Ginsberg said that it was a "good sound that might express feelings of a kid about to be drafted...
Despite its large population, East Pakistan is lightly held, with a single infantry division. New Delhi's propaganda insists that there will be no invasion, that India regards East Pakistan as a friendly neutral. Pakistani propaganda similarly works hard to woo the dominant Sikhs of India's Punjab, assuring them that every effort will be made to avoid damaging their sacred Golden Temple in Amritsar and urging that they sit out the war. Neither appeal is apt to be very successful...
...question there, as well as in any other city that tries to woo motorized commuters away from their cars, is whether anybody wants to make the switch. Thousands of drivers enjoy not being tied to the unyielding timetable and the often inconvenient station locations of the railroad. Said one New York commuter last week, as he waited immobile (and alone, as do 70% of New York's commuting drivers) in traffic: "The train's part of the city. My car's a part of home...
...Bella's ambitious plots, he is vitally concerned with reform at home. Ignoring the howls of extremists, he has already pushed through a lucrative Sahara oil agreement with the French and granted oil exploration concessions to three U.S. companies. Even worse, he has opened a campaign to woo private foreign investors back to Algeria by guaranteeing their money against nationalization...