Word: zahn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some time Lake Champlain had been filling up with sludge, apparently from an International Paper Co. factory at Ticonderoga, N.Y. Finally, in 1971, H. Keith Zahn went to federal court and sued the New York pulpmaker on behalf of himself and some 200 others who owned Vermont land fronting on the lake. Alleging $40 million in overall damages because of the pollution, Zahn was relying on the newly popular tactic of the class action, which allows a large group with a common complaint to join together in one suit. Last week the Supreme Court dug in its heels and decided...
...involved and when the sum in dispute exceeds $10,000, a federal court has jurisdiction. And federal class actions have long depended on at least one plaintiffs meeting the $10,000 requirement. But the court has now made clear that every plaintiff must meet that requirement. Thus most of Zahn's coplaintiffs, who had individually suffered less than $10,000 damages, were told that they could "not ride in on another's coattails." That does not necessarily mean Zahn gets nothing; he may still bring a federal suit with whichever of his neighbors also allege...
...best way to solve problems is to foresee them before they become problems." Those words from Dr. Joachim Zahn, chairman of the executive board of West Germany's Daimler-Benz, expressed as well as any the sense of an unusual meeting in Brussels this month. Nearly 40 chief executives of leading European and American business and banking firms assembled in the Common Market's headquarters city, under the auspices of TIME, for a colloquy on their common concerns...
...Tourist Holdings; Nino Rovelli, Societa Italiana Resine; Curt R. Strand, Hilton International; Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., TWA; Hendrik A.C. Van Riemsdijk, Philips' Gloeilampenfabrieken; Eberhard Von Kuenheim, Bayerische Motoren Werke (B.M.W.); Gerrit A. Wagner, Royal Dutch Petroleum; Pierre Waltz, Societe Suisse pour 1'Industrie Horlogere; Dr. Joachim Zahn, Daimler-Benz...
...struggle against the Jews" and warned Catholics that racism ignores "decisive doctrines of Catholic faith and morals." No one knows why the encyclical, which presumably was known to Pius XI's successor, Pius XII, was not promulgated. Historians can only guess what it might have accomplished; Sociologist Gordon Zahn argued in N.C.R. that "Nazi anti-Semitic practices might not have escalated to the stage of planned extermination; more important, Catholics in countries soon to be occupied might have been less ready to cooperate when the time came...