Word: recoverer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Verge of Collapse. Life within the surrounded capital sputtered on. A few street markets were still operating, and the city's electricity and water systems were working irregularly. Occasionally a widow could be seen traveling by pedicab to recover the body of her husband. Every morning, foreign visitors awoke...
The California schoolteacher who lost her class action against Standard Oil's clean air claims for F-310 gasoline [March 10] because she could not pay $42,000 to send notices of the lawsuit to 700,000 other Standard credit-card holders is not alone. Corporations are now consistently...
Unkind Cut. "Underneath the imitation-oak-grained formica veneer is solid oak, beneath that phony image of character is character," writes Safire. But what is the nature of that character? He never succeeds in defining it. Perhaps there never was anything cohesive in Nixon's character. Perhaps Safire is...
Queensboro, who just a week before almost upset Delaware, one of the best teams in the ECAC, provided the Crimson volleyballers with a much tougher time than New Paltz. But a fine spiking performance changed the momentum of the game and Queensboro was unable to recover.
> The Supreme Court decided last year that under federal rules, anyone bringing a class action must notify all other potential parties to the suit (TIME. June 10). That tough interpretation put a stop to such far-reaching actions as one brought on behalf of "all U.S. citizens." Sensible as that...