Word: courtly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...over noneconomic issues. The city balked. The new demands would have cost an additional $ 19 million, which it claimed it did not have. Morial accused the Teamsters of trying to wrest control of the police department from the city. The police walked out again, despite a back-to-work court order...
...Michelle share billing in court...
California's courts have ruled that unmarried cohabitants have the right to bring such an action, and 1,000 or so similar cases have already been filed in the state, including suits by the onetime great and good friends of Rock Star Alice Cooper and Comedian Flip Wilson. Actor Rod Steiger found himself sued for $2.4 million by Sherry Nelson, his estranged wife. She is arguing that she is entitled to half of his earnings, including those in the four years they lived together before they were married. Even more bewildering is the suit, now being considered...
...there are at least 2 million cases per year of child abuse, not 1 million as thought earlier. Even granting that the statistic seems inflated because more cases are reported now, experts think that there has been a substantial real increase in the practice. Last year's Supreme Court decision allowing teachers to spank children in school, thinks Yale Psychologist Edward Zigler, sets an example for institutional abuse, an offense that is even more widespread than abuse by parents. The business of child pornography flourishes. In Los Angeles the police estimate that 30,000 children, many of them under...
Carter's inflation fighters did score early success in persuading unions to restrain wage demands, but last week the AFL-CIO announced plans to challenge the program in court. The federation argues that the National Labor Relations Act requires employers to bargain "in good faith" with unions, and claims that doing so is impossible if companies know they can lose federal contracts by agreeing to excessive wage increases...