Word: renton
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...their $90 million strike fund, but Boeing is under pressure to deliver 94 more jet airliners before year-end. In the interim, Boeing intends to use supervisors and nonunion personnel to put the final touches on dozens of jets that stand virtually completed at its assembly plants in Renton and Everett, Wash. The company pledges to observe strict safety standards. But the Federal Aviation Administration, taking no chances, announced last week that it would "significantly expand" its inspections of the company's assembly lines to ensure compliance with FAA rules...
...daughter who suffers from a neurological disorder, a dog was schooled to pick up signals of an impending seizure and alert the girl and her parents. "The dog knows before the girl does that she is going to have one," says Leo Bustad, president of the Delta Society, a Renton, Wash., group that funds pet studies...
...court declined to allow new limits on what pornographers may say, it did not object to tougher limits on where they may say it. The court voted 7 to 2 to uphold a zoning ordinance passed by the small Seattle suburb of Renton (pop. 32,000) that prohibited the showing of explicit films in theaters within 1,000 ft. of a school, church or residence. The law was acceptable, said Justice William Rehnquist, because it served the legitimate governmental purpose of preserving the quality of urban life while allowing reasonable alternative locations to the theater operators...
...court, the town has no obligation to ensure "sites at bargain prices." The court's ruling in effect permits localities to scatter adult theaters, as Detroit has, or to concentrate them, as Boston has in its "combat zone." After the decision was announced, the mayor's office in Renton was deluged with more than 100 calls from officials of other cities looking for tips on zoning-ordinance design...
...Wash. He dissected nearly every radio and television set in the house and then skipped college to take a series of odd jobs on the periphery of the computer world. He repaired video-arcade games, Xerox machines and personal computers, and at one time ran the ComputerLand store in Renton, Wash. In 1979, convinced that there were fortunes to be made, he bought an Apple II Plus and began churning out video games, working as a building manager by day and programming at night...