Word: round
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...April 1974 the Panamanian cultural attaché ran a red light in Washington and plowed into another car, permanently paralyzing one of its passengers, Dr. Halla Brown, 66. After 19 months of hospitalization and round-the-clock nursing care at home, her medical bills have exceeded $300,000, but she could never collect a dime from the attaché. Two years later, a car driven by a Senegalese embassy chauffeur struck and killed a 19-year-old road worker in suburban Virginia. The embassy carried no liability insurance on the car, and the victim's family could not then...
...netherworld, fearful that anyone could betray them to the INS. They are preyed upon by coyote racketeers who take their fee and then skip out on the smuggling assignment; by shyster notaries who have made fortunes providing them with worthless documents; and by employers who call the INS to round up the illegals just before payday...
Roberts, last year's number-one player, struggled to reach the finals, barely edging out her second-round opponent, 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. She had no difficulty disposing of Tufts' Laura Weissman, 6-3, 6-3, in the final...
Sally Roberts and Terry Clarke, at number two doubles, dropped a three setter in the second round to Jumbos Beth Hochuser and Madeline Schwartz. The Tufts tandem snatched a 5-2 tiebreaker after splitting the first two sets 2-6 and 6-1 to knock out the Harvard squad before going on to win the finals...
...originally conceived the Complaint-Mobile project: "Many people simply can't afford lawyers, and they don't need them. They simply have to demand their rights. Most businesses know that people do not complain and even if they do, they'll go away if they lose Round 1. We're just helping them get what they should be able to get for themselves. This is a government program that works, and it works without clogging the courts...