Word: landmarking
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Disagreement between Sears, Rocbuck & Co, and a Cambridge real estate firm over the terms of a new least has forced the closing of the 58-year-old Sears department store in Porter Square, a landmark for local residents and the area's largest department store...
...judge ruled against the Quinlans, but when they appealed to the state supreme court, it granted their plea. In a landmark decision based on the right to privacy, it ruled that "no compelling interest of the state could compel Karen to endure the unendurable." The Quinlans thought their ordeal was nearly over. When the respirator was finally turned off, however, Karen remained alive, year after year...
...Jersey landmark was not binding in other states, of course, and laws on the right to die remain a confused patchwork. Courts have generally but not uniformly ruled that a competent patient has a right to refuse medical treatment (34 states and the District of Columbia recognize "living wills" that forbid extreme treatments). The incompetent and comatose present complex problems. If doctors and families agree to withhold treatment, doctors often quietly practice what they call "judicious neglect," but disagreements still end noisily in court...
...trial without precedent: three corporate officials accused of murder after one of their employees died as a result of hazardous conditions in the plant where he worked. Last week Illinois Judge Ronald J.P. Banks issued the stunning landmark verdict: the executives and the now defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. were found guilty in the 1983 death of Stefan Golab by cyanide poisoning...
...agreements are New York and California, home to the biggest U.S. banks. The court action seems certain to spur new mergers between regional institutions. In the South, the decision immediately cleared the way for Citizens & Southern (assets $8 billion), Georgia's largest bank-holding company, to acquire Landmark Banking Corp. (assets $3.8 billion). Harry Keefe Jr., chairman of the Wall Street brokerage firm of Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, predicts that the pace of acquisitions will accelerate. "There are only 22 institutions with assets of $20 billion or more," he notes. "That figure should double in the next five years...