Word: zobel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thailand too has entered the Hong Kong sweepstakes. A new top-level government task force is studying how residence restrictions and business taxes could be eased to attract Hong Kong investors. In the Philippines, three business groups have proposed new free-trade ports. Banker-Developer Enrique Zobel even suggests transforming the small, barren island of Mactan, off Cebu city, into a "mini-Hong Kong" and operating it like an autonomous business and trading center...
...Patricia Zobel had filed their legal challenge to Alaska's wealth distribution schemes as a class-action suit [Feb. 16], they would have quickly learned that others are in sympathy with them. Not all Alaskans are as greedy, cruel or constitutionally ignorant as those who have amused themselves by abusing this courageous couple...
...quite. Patricia and Ron Zobel of Anchorage, both lawyers, felt that the legislation favored oldtimers ("sourdoughs") over newcomers ("cheechakos"), thus violating the equal protection clauses of the federal and state constitutions. Seeking a fairer allocation, they filed a suit that brought the giveaway to a dead halt. Predictably, cheechakos and sourdoughs alike turned on the Zobels with the fury of one of the state's fierce Taku winds...
Federal District Court Judge Rya Zobel ruled that because Ralph and Molly Hoagland are involved in both restaurants, the two establishments constitute a "single employer...