Word: mall
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When a grandmother was abducted from the parking lot of a shopping mall and raped, Allred sued the center for lax security. She won an $85,000 settlement; the adverse publicity forced the mall to adopt more stringent protection for shoppers. When an oil company refused to promote a woman to its marketing department because customers in South America were reluctant to deal with women, Allred sued. An appellate court ruled that a company may not discriminate because of customer preference. Badgered by Allred, a dry-cleaning chain decided to equalize the prices it charged for cleaning similar...
...young songwriter (Ted Wass), offering fame in exchange for his soul. Director Paul Bogart's muzzy little comedy appropriately pivots on the Burns-Burns confrontation when Lucifer and the Lord play poker in Caesars Palace to win the yuppie Faustus. Oh, God! You Devil has a shopping-mall message: Don't do drugs or dream of fame; go home, be ordinary. If only Gracie were alive to play the devil's advocate, this biblical vaudeville might have had a little more class...
Faster, 1965, Twenty thousand activists tally of the Mall for the Match on Washington to End the War in Vietnam. "The problems of America cry out for attention, and our entanglement in South Vietnam postpones the confrontation of these issues while prolonging the misery of the people of that war torn land," reads a petition to Congress presented by the crowd to a Capitol policeman, the only in dividual on hand to receive...
...years ago, to honor the 2.7 million members of the U.S. armed forces who served in Viet Nam, a wall of polished black granite was erected on the Washington Mall, 500 ft. from the Lincoln Memorial. The 493.4-ft., $4 million-plus structure, inscribed with the names of the 58,022 Americans who died or were declared missing in the Southeast Asian war, was the result of a five-year fund-raising drive led by Jan Scruggs, an ex-infantry corporal who founded the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund. But the wall's stark, understated design displeased many veterans...
Retail developer Sharon Cavanaugh calls the shopping mall a "real, human, authentic environment--very earthy," adding that tenants will include a British "country fashion" store and a traditional women's sportswear chain...