Word: fischel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many cases, individual culprits are given immunity from prosecution in exchange for testimony, and the corporations get off with small fines. The $2 million in penalties assessed against General Electric, for example, amounts to less than eight hours' worth of profits for the company. Daniel Fischel, director of the economics program at the University of Chicago law school, points out that the gains a company reaps from violating the law sometimes exceed the penalties, making it the most economically efficient thing...
...generations before Christiane F., a boy about her age watched a carnival's grotesque strong man break his chains-and another beast roamed wild and free through Germany. The boy, David Singer (Mario Fischel), is Jewish, and the film David is another small step in Germany's reluctant search for understanding of the Nazi period. Families like David's were forced into public humiliation, then into hiding, then-if they were lucky-out of the Reich. Director Peter Lilienthal adds little to the Holocaust "literature," content to play family ironies against social enormities in a genre that...