Word: bridgeport
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Madeleine Morton, owner of the best restaurant in Saigon, the Guillaume Tell, greeted her customers. "I am trying to go to Bridgeport, Con-nec-ticut," she announced. At 12:20 two black buses finally arrived and were quickly filled...
...Jetzon Tire and Rubber Co. of Bridgeport, Conn., is mailing customers checks for $12 after purchase of each set of four tires...
Most education majors suffer in silence through dull required courses about "teaching methods." But Mrs. II-ene lanniello, a senior at the University of Bridgeport, has decided to stage a one-woman revolt. Claiming that the "Methods and Materials in Teaching Basic Business Subjects" course she had to take last year was "worthless," she sued the school to get her tuition and expenses back...
...Bridgeport administration is frankly worried about the suit and won permission to have it moved from small claims court to the state's court of common pleas for a better test of the principle. "I'm not worried that the professor might not have taught exactly what was in the catalogue," says Vice President for Academic Affairs Warren Carrier. "That's common practice. But if students sue because they say they did not learn anything, that's a different matter. If we lose this, every university in the country will be in trouble...
...year a quasi-public Resources Recovery Authority was set up to manage a garbage collection and re-use program for the entire state. By 1985 it is expected to handle 10,000 tons of solid wastes daily in ten regional collection centers. The first will soon be built in Bridgeport by Garrett Co., which will sort garbage and sell every component?the metals, the fuel and even the ashes (for landfill or highway construction). If all goes well, the authority will earn $100 million a year by 1985; that will more than cover its costs. For then" part, Connecticut residents...