Word: impoundment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Chicago an 85-year-old woman waiting for her son in his illegally parked Corvette remained in the car unnoticed by traffic agents as they hooked it up and towed it away. Her son found her two hours later, sitting in the car at the impound...
...that the FDA had dared challenge the big food companies. The first target was Citrus Hill Fresh Choice orange juice, another P&G product. After more than a year of wrangling over the word "fresh" (the product is made from concentrate and is pasteurized), the FDA had U.S. marshals impound 24,000 half-gallon cartons of the juice at a suburban Minneapolis warehouse. P&G gave in within two days. Unilever subsidiary Ragu Foods, which since 1989 had been skirmishing over the same word on labels for its processed pasta sauce, soon dropped its fight. And earlier this month...
Also, to avoid a fiscal disaster similar to the crisis the state suffered in its last bookkeeping year, the budget would mandate that the governor impound money if state revenues start to decline unexpectedly, said Senate Ways and Means Chair Patricia McGovern, a member of the conference committee...
...state Supreme Judicial Court ruled earlier this month that Dukakis did not have authority to impound the local aid money when he cut the 1990 budget...