Word: suede
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Michael Hardwick also supposedly offended community standards. While in % his bedroom in Atlanta with another man, he was arrested for sodomy. (The police originally went to his house to arrest him for failing to pay a fine for drinking in public. Hardwick's roommate, just arrived home, told the officers...
Sometimes the laws simply lag behind the times. In 1979 the Labor Department, backed by unions, sued a Vermont skiwear maker who employed women to knit in their homes. The department charged the company with violating minimum-wage provisions. The law under which the department acted was passed in 1942...
Lenzner says his career proved to him theefficacy of working within the system to effectchange. Although half of the president's cabinetat one point said that programs they headed hadbeen sued by Lenzner's legal aid service on behalfof poor clients, the service was made independentand continues today. "I retain...
Animosity toward blacks and a history of racial violence long ago earned Cicero, Ill. (pop. 62,000), a reputation as the "Selma of the North." In 1983 the Justice Department sued the Chicago suburb for housing and job discrimination, and last week Cicero's town board finally agreed to change...
A major report due to be released next month by the Inspector General's office recommends drawing that net tighter. It calls for more cooperation between state boards and the Federal Government and urges higher medical licensing fees to provide more money for enforcement. Kusserow also favors legal immunity for...