Word: locks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dispute over X-car brakes began in November 1979, when the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration began an investigation after complaints that when the brakes were applied even moderately, the rear wheels tended to lock and throw the car into a skid. After much prodding, GM announced a recall of 47,371 X-cars some 20 months later. But it did not repair the brake defect successfully. Last January N.H.T.S.A. declared that about 320,000 of the cars were unsafe. In February 1983, GM ordered a second recall of 240,000 cars. N.H.T.S.A. still considered the action inadequate. The Government...
...primary or caucus to gain any delegates, will make it tough for Jackson to win more than 150 to 200 of the Democratic Convention's nearly 4,000 delegates. That fact seems unlikely to influence Jackson or his supporters. "If he could win a few primaries and lock up a couple of hundred delegates," says George E. Johnson, president of Chicago-based Johnson Products Co., Inc., "we [blacks] could go into the convention with some power...
...Tony Visconti, who lived outside London with David and Angie, life was like a lysergic version of Les Liaisons Dangereuses. "Thursday night was gay night. David would go to a gay club, Angie to a lesbian club, and they would both bring home people they found. We had to lock our bedroom door because in the middle of the night these people they brought back home with them would come climbing into new beds, looking for fresh blood...
...sniffed danger and summoned from San Francisco a lawyer she kept on retainer for occasions like this. By the time Attorney Dade Cooley, an urbane 60-year-old, and his astute wife Ellen reach the Toulouse-Carcassonne canal, Kate has just surfaced, as dead as Ophelia, in a lock. In a classic, Christie-precise scenario, Cooley discovers that the murders almost certainly involve Kate's obsessive desire to own a priceless 35-carat ruby, a relic of the Crusades, which was stolen and has been missing for several years...
...propensity to bring such suits has been spurred by news of large victories. The most famous case involved Singer Connie Francis, who was raped at a Howard Johnson's motel on Long Island, N.Y., in 1974. She charged that the motel-room lock was faulty; a jury awarded her $2.5 million in damages. Some recent decisions also involve whopping sums, and somewhat unlikely defendants. In California, a drunken driver plowed into the rear end of a station wagon parked on the shoulder of a freeway; the wagon had been left without lights by a police officer who was arresting...