Word: suede
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Elizabeth Langland, now an associate professor at Converse College in South Carolina, sued Vanderbilt on February 11, charging the university with a "general policy" of sex discrimination.
One reason business is good is that the store outlets are open nights and weekends, while conventional brokerage offices keep hours more akin to bankers'. The in-store units also seem to benefit from the "halo" effect of Sears' consumer reputation. Sears is trying to capitalize on this...
Last week Verola sued the Dean Witter firm for, among other things, libel, slander and interference with business relations. She is seeking a public retraction of the slurs in addition to $100,000 for lost income and, she hopes, an extra $500,000 or more in punitive damages. Says she...
Sometimes, though, the money is secondary. Three Atlanta policemen who were shot and a fourth who was beaten had little chance of recovering from the down-and-outers who injured them, but they went to court anyway. Explained their lawyer, William McKenney: "The public thinks that when they see a...
Not all careers follow that trajectory of seeking the press, then avoiding it, or of still seeking attention after the press has lost interest. More fascinating are the public figures who lose out in press favor and then make it back: they show skill in damage limitation. Billie Jean King...