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...quite certain how to define aggressive begging. The law makes it a misdemeanor to beg with the "intent to intimidate another person into giving money or goods," a formulation that could give pause to a high-pressure used-car salesman. Jerry Sheehan, legislative director for the Washington State chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, predicts that the new law will be challenged in court. If citizens don't understand what a law prohibits, he argues, how can they be expected to abide...
...judge. When a driver claims his car couldn't go over 35 m.p.h., his Honor-on-the-spot takes it out for a spin. What did a policeman see through the keyhole? To find out, Wapner goes and takes a peek. This volume hardly qualifies as a scholarly treatise (Chapter 10 is titled "Under ( the Robes"). But readers seeking Wapner's piquant observations and offbeat tales of life in the legal lane won't sue for failure to deliver...
Despite strong incentives to settle the dispute at times seemed irresolvable. The bitterness peaked last April, when Texaco filed for Chapter 11 protection to avoid posting a bond to cover the jury award. Charged Texaco Chief Executive James Kinnear: "Pennzoil has placed its own greed above any consideration of fundamental fairness or the public welfare." Said Pennzoil Chairman J. Hugh Liedtke: "Maybe now we should sit back a while and see how they like bankruptcy...
...Francisco hotels provided the service to their increasingly sophisticated travelers. Today there are some 1,000 concierges, 120 of whom are registered with Les Clefs d'Or, the prestigious international association whose members wear crossed-key pins on their uniform lapels. Explains Jack Nargil, 39, president of the American chapter and chief concierge at the Four Seasons hotel in Washington: "People want service in a great hotel. Guests become loyal to people, not buildings." All across the U.S., hotels are hiring concierges as part of the "amenities war" to win loyal customers...
...anyone who gained his friendship valued it highly. That included an Englishwoman who once lent him her typewriter because he had pawned his own. Jimmy did not return it because, he said, he was in the midst of Go Tell It on the Mountain and "had to finish the chapter...