Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kudos to the Wyoming jury who awarded $1.3 million to Margaret Housen for contracting gonorrhea. They have opened a veritable Pandora's box of litigation. Using their scale, contracting syphilis could bring a lucky person $750,000. Thanks to their precedent, purchasing no-fault sex insurance will become mandatory at puberty. Pity the uninsured who must resort to medical treatment rather than cashing in at the courthouse...
...eleven decisions handed down last week, one involving airline overbooking gladdened every passenger who has ever been bumped off a flight (see box). Other noteworthy cases settled...
...here way before he started and will last far after their current chief returns to the faculty ranks. When John T. Dunlop was dean of the Faculty from 1970 to 1973 he kept a tight watch on individual fiefdoms; one member of his staff recalls "he knew where every box of paper clips was and who paid for it." Under Rosovsky the number of deans and assistant deans has proliferated--and each one has a good deal more autonomy than in the past...
...Moonies are overeducated for their work. Drawn mostly from middle-class families, many were college students originally attracted to the movement by various idealistic-sounding causes. Fort Worth debutante Cynthia Slaughter was drawn by an ad seeking someone interested in the "betterment of mankind" (see box page 50). Others learn about the movement when they go to discussions of "ecology," "morality," and the spiritual salvation...
...purchase can be postponed, but not forever-the shape as well as the strength of the comeback has caught Detroit off guard. The main reason for the upswing seems to be that buyers are shedding their recession-bred fear of spending. Now that the inflation rate is dropping (see box) and "real" incomes are rising, Americans are reverting to an old habit. As Ford Executive Vice President William Bourke puts it, "They often buy 'as much car' as their budgets allow, and 1976 budgets allow a greater mix of higher-priced cars than last year...