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When Lane took over the Chicago Housing Authority in 1988, the ghetto projects he oversaw were rightly considered the nation's worst. The police estimated that violent gangs controlled 120 of the CHA'S 167 high-rises. "People were sleeping in bathtubs to avoid gunfire," Lane says, "and until that...
But the third element that seems bound to fuel further controversy over the NEA is a verdict just handed down by a federal court in Los Angeles. In 1990 Frohnmayer, hoping to mollify the Republican right, introduced a clause requiring "general standards of decency" as a basis for NEA grants...
But it is outside investors, rather than regulators, who are applying the most pressure on corporate insiders. Increasingly, shareholders are turning to the courts. There are nearly 100 investor lawsuits pending against insiders, says James Newman, publisher of the Securities Class Action Alert newsletter, double the number of five years...
"We never sued to have kids under six," Briefer said. "Now we have little infants and toddlers."
In 1988, a woman alleged that she was raped at the Pi Eta by a guest of a club member. She sued the club for failing to supervise effectively and for establishing an atmosphere that led to violence against women. The case was settled out of court last year (likely...