Word: philadelphia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from common commercial litigation to provocative political disputes. The law has been invoked by victims of sexual harassment against their bosses, by tow-truck drivers against local sheriffs and by whistle-blowers against their employers. Earlier this year, a federal appeals court upheld the use of RICO by a Philadelphia abortion clinic against 26 right-to-lifers who forced their way into the building, castigated patients, knocked down workers and damaged equipment...
Theresa Tierney, sweating from her early-morning walk on the beach, carefully treads past the mating crabs. Each summer Tierney and her family trade the Philadelphia heat for a bay-front seat at crab-mating time. As a live crab trundles by her feet, she snatches it up by its spiny tail to reveal an underbelly of writhing legs and pulsing book gills. Despite years of such intimate contact with the crabs, she is still unable to unlock one vital secret. Murmurs a slightly embarrassed Tierney: "I can't even tell what sex it is." Her husband Matt...
...stranger to deadlines, Alexander Sutton recalls having 30 minutes to decide which of 700 pictures from Louis Farrakhan's controversial 1988 visit to Philadelphia to publish in the Daily Pennsylvanian. Working in TIME's picture department, Sutton has been combing through mountains of film each week to find the right images for such stories as a recent look at the plight of the world's refugees. In our New York bureau, David Muhlbaum of Middlebury College handles reporting on subjects as varied as the prospects for economic stability in Argentina and the consequences of posing for Playboy...
...that sixth sense about seafaring that enables you to smell a storm on the horizon or watch the barometer and figure how to outmaneuver it." Because of such gifts, Hazelwood rose swiftly through the ranks. Only ten years after graduating, he became a captain, in charge of the Exxon Philadelphia, a California-to-Alaska oil tanker. At 32 he was the youngest skipper in Exxon's fleet...
Flight 232, from Denver to Philadelphia via Chicago, carried 11 crew members and 282 passengers, including three infants, said United spokesperson Lawrence Nagin. The plane has a capacity of 287 passengers...