Word: junes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paso panhandlers congregate at the busiest intersections, hauling children into traffic to tap on the windows of trapped cars. In Chicago they roam the churches, taking their own collections. In Seattle, where a law has been passed banning "aggressive begging," a man was beaten to death in June after allegedly rebuffing a panhandler...
...also getting help from the federal courts. Although last year one federal bench rejected a Fourth Amendment challenge to a State Department employee-testing policy, in March another decided that the < mandatory testing of workers by a Nebraska health agency violates the amendment's ban on unreasonable searches. In June a federal district court in Los Angeles produced a major victory for foes of AIDS tracing in addressing the claim of a gay man who was tossed out of an alcohol rehabilitation program at Centinela Hospital in Inglewood, Calif. Judge Pamela Ann Rymer ruled that a person fingered...
...financial markets took the news in stride, since the situation may not be as bad as the June figures suggest. For the first six months of 1988, the trade deficit is running at an annual rate of $140 billion, a significant improvement from 1987's record $170 billion...
...largest U.S. property and casualty insurer (assets: $9.2 billion). Reason: the Warren, N.J., company inadvertently plunged too deep into the rain-insurance business. Chubb's policies, designed to reimburse farmers for crop damage due to low rainfall, sold faster than roadside lemonade in ten Midwestern and Southern states last June, before the full impact of the drought was apparent. By the June 15 application deadline, Chubb's independent managing agent, Good Weather International of Jericho, N.Y., had received more than 8,700 applications for $350 million in coverage. & That was nearly 70 times the amount of rain insurance Chubb sold...
...last June Martin published a piece that displeased one very important reader: Richard Rison, the newly appointed warden at Lompoc. Headlined THE GULAG MENTALITY, Martin's article charged that Rison had increased tension at the prison by limiting access to the recreation yard and replacing the inmates' individually decorated and highly prized chairs with plain gray folding chairs. "He's tryin' to start a riot," complained an unidentified convict in Martin's story. "We might just as well give him one and get it over with...