Word: suede
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ruckelshaus says bluntly that the Nixon Administration's stress on "jawboning" has failed to reform air polluters, not a single one of whom the Government has yet sued. He does not intend to "launch a big accusatory tirade" against industry. But he has made it clear that the era...
"Ripeness is all," said King Lear. Quite possibly. But not in a society based on the planned obsolescence of men as well as machines. Paul Weiss, retired Sterling Professor of Philosophy at Yale and one of the nation's foremost teachers, has been denied the Albert Schweitzer Chair at...
Once a relative rarity, malpractice suits are now common throughout the U.S. In California alone, such cases increased 4% from 1966 to 1969. According to the American Medical Association, one-fourth of all U.S. physicians will be sued for malpractice before the end of their careers. Those most likely to...
Even so, the cost of such suits is enormous, and sympathetic juries keep raising the ante. A New York State court recently awarded $750,000 to a man who lost the use of both legs as the result of a spinal operation. In Miami, Mrs. Ellen Roll won $1,500...
Roger Paynter, a 49-year-old New York City fireman with a son at New York University, was outraged when N.Y.U. canceled his son's classes for 19 days amid the national wave of campus protests over Cambodia and Kent State. "I paid for my son's education...