Word: sues
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have long been demanding, the President also asked Congress to allow consumers to join together in "class action" damage suits in federal courts against errant manufacturers or merchants. If found guilty of deceptive trade practices, manufacturers would have to bear all legal fees and pay damages to all who sue. Nixon disappointed consumer advocates, however, by proposing that suits be limited to eleven specified offenses, including worthless warranties and false claims for a product. Moreover, consumers would be unable to go to court until the Justice Department had first established fraud through a lawsuit. Even Mrs. Knauer, the Administration...
Greenberg denied that the suit is designed to halt criticism of the war. He said he would sue regardless of the content of the political actions. "I just think it's a grave mistake for an educational institution to get involved in political activities." he said...
...HATING BOOK, by Charlotte Zolotow, illustrated by Ben Shecter (Harper & Row; $2.95). "I hate hate hated my friend." So begins this tale of a hot but brief misunderstanding between two little girls that is finally solved by confrontation: "When I wore my new dress, Sue said Jane said you said I looked like a freak." "I did not! I said you looked neatl...
...crippled Ryals' modest frame home near the beach at Gulfport, Miss., and he and his wife now live in a leased trailer on their hurricane-stripped lot. His insurance company offered to pay only 25% of his claim, says Ryals, so he has hired a lawyer to sue for more. That may take considerable time, and in the interim the lender is threatening to foreclose the mortgage that covered his lot and vanished home...
...Apollo 12 astronauts. A devout Methodist, he carried a church banner covered with such Christian symbols as a fish and chalice aboard Yankee Clipper. At the University of Texas, which he attended on a Navy scholarship, Texas-born Bean made the wrestling and gymnastic teams and met his wife Sue, a college tumbler. Like most of the astronauts, he likes to exercise (his favorite sport: surfing in the Gulf of Mexico). Calm, self-possessed and straightforward, he trained patiently for six years for his first space flight. He and his wife have two children...