Word: finales
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...will ultimately be affected by Bush v. Gore. But one thing is clear: the court has demonstrated in the past that it is fully capable of reasoning its way to dubious decisions. As Chief Justice Robert Jackson once wrote, in a bitter dissent of his own: "We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final...
Gore and his top aides say they were delighted with Boies' advocacy. But after his nuclear defeat in Judge N. Sanders Sauls' trial court, and especially after the final Supreme Court ruling, Boies' critics became operatic. Top trial lawyers with no grudge against Boies agreed that he made missteps. At trial, they said, he presented the wrong witnesses. On appeal, he showed a faulty grasp of the jurisdictional issues, and he boxed himself in by arguing that Dec. 12 was a meaningful deadline. Throughout, he spent too much time talking to the cameras and not enough time preparing...
...final hurdles before any new drug--conventional or genomic--can come to market are the FDA's extensive testing procedures for safety and efficacy, which can take up to 15 years. Despite recent well-publicized recalls, the agency's rigorous standards and safety record are the envy of the industrialized world...
...executives to endure hundreds of hours of interrogation in Room No. 385 of the Federal Trade Commission building in Washington, and why they showered thousands of proprietary documents on their inquisitors. And it's exactly why they faxed, on the eve of last week's FTC vote, the final written concession that led to unanimous approval of the $112 billion marriage between Case's America Online and Levin's Time Warner...
Still, retailers believe in Santa Claus. Some 60% of all holiday shopping takes place in the final two weeks, and merchants expect bargain-sniffing consumers to pounce at the last minute. "If the weather clears, the shoppers will be out," says Lee Scott, CEO of Wal-Mart. "They have shown they do have disposable income." Now they have to show they'll spend...