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With their new promotions, Hertz, Avis and National are reluctantly resorting to a tactic pioneered by Budget Rent a Car, the scrappy No. 4 company that has been chipping away at the dominance of the big three. Since 1978, Budget has handed out such premiums as calculators and pen-and-pencil sets. The giveaways and price discounting helped Budget boost its share of the market from about 7% in 1976 to 16% last year, close behind the 17% held by National...
Last fall, when a swastika was etched with a pen into the JLSA bulletin board, Dean of Students Mary D. Upton put notices in Law School publications deploring the action, and threatening disciplinary action against those found responsible...
...years old, in a plaid button down shirt and brown pants going through his desk. The man fled through the door. The police found on the student's desk a red Harvard notebook that had been stolen from the common room of Grays Yall earlier that evening. A gold pen and a gold watch were also stolen form the common room that night...
Lawyers try to frame simple questions that give the youngster a concrete sense of abstract concepts. In the successful California prosecution of Kidnaper Kenneth Parnell, for example, Deputy District Attorney George McClure established his witness's competence by picking up a pen and asking the victim, Timmy White, then six, "Timmy, if I told you this thing in my hand is an ice cream cone, would it be the truth or a lie?" To put children at ease, some judges bend courtroom rules a bit. In one Seattle trial, a 5½-year-old witness was allowed...
...checked into the motel with her, that helped convict Doris Ann. Yet she seems to bear him no grudge. He is in a different Maryland prison, where he is serving a lighter sentence for theft and obstruction of justice, and she corresponds with him regularly. She has 35 other pen pals, including some Indians on death rows elsewhere...