Word: lock
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little more than two hours from the curtain, Burns slams shut the back door of a truck and drives home the lock in a single move. "We gone," he shouts. It is time to get back on the bus. Bloomington, Ind., lies just a few hours ahead...
...with prior arrest records -- turned up. Smith, 39, filed a suit for false arrest. Last week Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joel Rudof ruled that despite Smith's detailed account of the murder of a woman she never knew or saw, police did not have probable cause to lock her up. Smith's attorney has asked for $750,000 in damages; the jury's verdict is expected this week...
...crusade against drunk driving has gained an ingenious new weapon: the breath-test ignition lock. The auto's ignition is linked to a breath-alcohol measuring device, and it becomes impossible to start a car unless the driver is sober. Already used in some states, including Ohio, Maryland and Michigan, and pending in a dozen or so others, the locks will undergo their first systematic trial in California by summer...
...investors more interested in bracelets than boxcars, Tiffany, the legendary jewelry-store chain, said it would sell 48% of the privately held firm. The shares are expected by early May at $21 to $23 -- lock, stock and bauble...
Directors and producers with Townsend's kind of moxie are storming the film industry like the Bedouin warriors in Beau Geste. No longer do the seven major studios and several so-called mini-majors have a lock on what is shown in U.S. movie houses. More than 350 independent films were produced worldwide in 1986, an increase of nearly 60% from the previous year. While such independent cinema was once synonymous with sexploitation pictures and artsy foreign films, the new wave of modestly budgeted movies is gaining widespread acceptance at the multiplexes in Everytown, U.S.A...