Word: helded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the ruling could force firms to give California customers up to $4 billion in rebates and rate cuts, few checks will go out soon. The reason: the court held that insurers may receive exemptions from the rollbacks if they can prove that the new rates would be too low to assure a "fair and reasonable" profit...
...Murphy Door Bed Co. of Amityville, N.Y. The firm claimed that a former Murphy distributor had illegally called his product the "original" Murphy bed. The appeals court ordered the distributor to pay damages for competing unfairly and violating an agreement to stop using the word original. But the judges held that the term Murphy bed can be used by any manufacturer...
...efforts to retain power when the last Vietnamese soldiers depart by Sept. 30 is the cooperation of Cambodia's former head of state, the wily and mercurial Prince Norodom Sihanouk, 67, who remains a powerful psychological symbol of better times. Last week, after the leaders held two days of talks in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, Sihanouk indicated for the first time that he was prepared to return home as head of state without his partner in opposition, the Khmer Rouge. But the former monarch laid on a host of ifs and buts to his offer that leave his return...
...newly formed independent student union poured out of 40 Beijing colleges to take part in the ten-hour trek from their campuses to Tiananmen Square, a short distance from Zhongnanhai, where China's leaders live and work. Again tens of thousands of workers joined them, shouting encouragement. One worker held up a sign in crude English letters: I LOVE YOU. A waitress scribbled a message on a piece of paper and pasted it on the window of a bus. "You must be exhausted, students," it read...
...facts and rumors surrounding this ordeal have led to the assumption, widely held, that Lawrence was homosexual. Editor Malcolm Brown, the co-author of an earlier biographical study of Lawrence, strongly disagrees, and the evidence of the letters supports his dissent. Lawrence repeatedly expressed his abhorrence of physical contact with any fellow creature, female or male. He puzzled over fairly basic questions: "The period of enjoyment, in sex, seems to me a very doubtful one. I've asked the fellows in this hut (three or four go with women regularly). They are not sure: but they...