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Earlier this month, the commission decided to not to grant any new liquor licenses in Harvard Square, Central Square, and the strip along Massachusetts Avenue which connects the two areas. Community groups lobbied extensively to obtain such a ban, believing that stricter controls over liquor-serving establishments are needed...
...liability lawsuits, notably in the case of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device, has resulted in ballooning insurance rates for manufacturers. And Union Carbide's Bhopal disaster, which prompted more than $100 billion in lawsuits, has helped make toxic-pollution insurance virtually impossible for most chemical companies to obtain...
While many large companies today manage their money by aggressively moving it among various accounts, some of Hutton's branch managers went much too far. They issued a flurry of overdraft checks in order to obtain no- interest loans at a time when rates were about 20%. For 20 months beginning in July 1980, the company obtained as much as $250 million a day in freebie loans on which it could earn interest. Bell termed the overdrafts "so excessive and + egregious" that "no reasonable person could have believed that (their) conduct was proper...
...Soviet Union is anxious to gain better access to advanced technology developed in the U.S. How badly is this needed in the Soviet Union, and primarily for what purpose? If the U.S. does not provide greater access, where do you intend to turn to obtain this technology...
...Women often demand sums of that size in the Emirates, where dowries are supplied by grooms rather than by brides. Young women in this Persian Gulf federation of sheikdoms view the dowry as an insurance policy. Because Islamic law allows men to take up to four wives and obtain divorces easily, brides believe they risk losing their husbands' affection...