Word: malibu
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SENTENCED. ROBERT DOWNEY JR., 34, trouble-prone actor; to three years in jail, for violating terms of his probation for a 1996 drug conviction; in Malibu, Calif...
Trembling, Lorrie Johnson begins to climb an extension ladder at Calamigos Ranch in Malibu, Calif. On the fifth rung, the 27-year-old traffic coordinator is asked if she has any neck injuries. "I was extremely frightened," she recalls later. An employee of the TV-ad-sales company Adlink, based in Los Angeles, Johnson has already walked a tightrope and shouted strings of nonsense words in a rhythm exercise to a group of colleagues today. Now she's being asked to make a "trust fall" backward off a ladder into the arms of a dozen virtual strangers. Taking a deep...
...sides settled. "Enough is enough!" Katzenberg was told by David Geffen, the DreamWorks partner who brokered the settlement with Disney board member Stanley Gold. "This time it's for real. It can get done, and therefore it should get done." It got done, early last week, at Geffen's Malibu beach home...
GENERAL MOTORS Ordered to pay $4.9 billion--yes, billion--in damages to six people burned in a Chevy Malibu...
...verdict awarded against General Motors in Los Angeles. After a 10-week trial, a 12-member panel ordered the company to pay the sum ? $107 million in compensatory damages and $4.8 billion in punitive damages ? to six people who were severely burned when the fuel tank in their Chevrolet Malibu exploded during a rear-end collision. The plaintiffs claimed the car should have been designed with a fuel tank further removed from the rear bumper...