Word: jersey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were legal defeats. To feminists, the most startling and discouraging setbacks came when both New Jersey and New York voters rejected state equal-rights amendments. Meantime, the national Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution remained stalled, with four states still needed for ratification...
During 1975, auto-insurance premiums rose an average 20.7%, and some big further increases are coming. Allstate early in December announced that it would seek increases averaging 12.5%; New Jersey has approved an 18.3% increase in auto-insurance premiums. In November the consumer price index rose at an annual rate of 8.7%, no better than the bad October figure, though many economists had expected a drop. One reason the rate stayed high: larger-than-expected boosts in auto-insurance premiums...
Open Pores. She grew up in a small, rural community in southern New Jersey named Pitman, as a working-class kid in a family that devoured books and quoted the Bible. While her mother waited tables and her father worked in a factory, Patti kept two younger sisters and a brother occupied with fantasies of Martians and ancient Egypt...
...doctors involved in the case were aware of the injuries from the first, but concluded then that they had nothing to do with her collapse. Then what did New Jersey Attorney General William F. Hyland hope to learn from Zywot? Hyland said he was not accusing Zywot of a crime but was merely clearing up some loose ends about Karen's final days of consciousness...
...save up enough money to share the rent on a summer house with friends. But she was laid off her job as a production worker in a ceramics company and had no way to raise the money. Indications are that she became involved with a low-level New Jersey underworld figure who supplied her with drugs. That became one more reason to set her brooding-and may have made the careless mixture of drugs and alcohol more likely. It now seems clear that Quinlan's life was changing faster than she could quite comprehend in the weeks just before...