Word: hit-and-run
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...general Mike Moore and attorney Scruggs are leading the charge with a legal theory, never before deployed in anti-tobacco suits, called "unjust enrichment." Rather than suing on behalf of specific sick individuals, a strategy that has yet to succeed, the states are claiming they are tobacco's hit-and-run victims, stuck paying out billions of taxpayer dollars each year to treat the array of health problems wrought by smoking. In other words, says one frustrated tobacco-industry lawyer, "the states are taking the position that they don't have to prove anything except the company sold the cigarettes...
...Harvard student crossing JFK St. was the victim of a hit-and-run last Thursday afternoon at about...
Lowell House Assistant Senior Tutor Tim J. Markey urged anyone who knows anything about the hit-and-run to step forward...
...taking a city in house-to-house fighting against a determined enemy is the most harrowing task in all warfare. And even after the Russian flag finally waved over a pile of smoking rubble, the killing might not stop. A Russian army of occupation would be subject to hit-and-run raids by Chechen guerrillas holed up in the Caucasus Mountains south of the city, as czarist armies were held off for no less than 47 years in the mid-19th century...
...20th time or more. Almost 6% of Michigan's 6.5 million drivers lost their privileges last year; an estimated two-thirds of them keep driving anyway. More than 36,000 Texas drivers involved in accidents last year had no license. In Southern California, which leads the U.S. in hit-and-run cases, police believe many of the people who flee the scene do so because they are driving without a license. State authorities estimate the number of illegal drivers to be as high as 1.7 million, or more than 8% of California's drivers...