Word: case
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...waited 20 years to require the practice at mines in Southwestern states. As a result, thousands of miners, many of them Navajos from local reservations, contracted lung cancer, and many of them died. In 1979, 200 workers with cancer sued the Federal Government for damages, but courts dismissed the case on the ground of sovereign immunity, which exempts the Government from legal liability unless it gives its consent...
...Genetic Fallacy. As Moisi observed, fearful people do not always recognize reality. In the German case, concern is based on the assumption that aggression and fascism are in some way the result of genetic defects that particularly afflict Germans. If not in the genes, another line of thinking holds, perhaps the evil is rooted in national character. Neither notion is scientifically valid. "You can't talk about something genetically wrong with the German people," says Moshe Zimmerman, professor of German history at Jerusalem's Hebrew University. "All the characteristics attributed to Germans may be found in Swiss, Americans and others...
That counterfeit case, which is pending in two state courts, may be the most elaborate and costly example yet of a new form of fraud: desktop forgery. Using the methods of desktop publishing -- the technology by which professional-looking publications are prepared on inexpensive personal computers -- desktop forgers can cheaply and easily create official documents that are virtually indistinguishable from the real thing...
...Carlsson-Paige and Levin, the damage being done is even worse than just making kids want to fight. TV- based war toys, say the authors, can destroy a child's creativity by luring the youngster into a pernicious pattern of imitating video characters. The book makes a strong case against today's war games and offers advice to parents on how to cope with the changing world of children's play...
...Peter Laarman, a spokesman for the United Auto Workers, "labor disputes often are not really about wages or benefits or working conditions, but rather about getting rid of the union altogether." That may become even easier if the Supreme Court rules in favor of Curtin Matheson Scientific in its case against the National Labor Relations Board. The Houston company is seeking to establish that an employer can reasonably assume that nonunion replacement workers, hired during a strike, oppose union representation. If the court agrees, companies may begin to kick out the unions as soon as replacement workers arrive...