Word: sues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...would be wonderful, though idealistic, if the hotels threatening the sue Harvard had decided to stand behind the University and absorb the losses. But Harvard can't place responsibility on the hotels' shoulders. The decision to move the conference was the University's, not that of the Sheraton or the Park Plaza...
...case of an embryo conceived outside her body? In a groundbreaking decision, the Supreme Court affirmed a lower-court ruling that gives a man the right not to become a father against his wishes. Like thousands of young couples unable to conceive a child naturally, Junior and Mary Sue Davis had turned to test-tube fertilization. But when the couple divorced and couldn't agree who should control seven fertilized embryos they had frozen and stored in a Tennessee clinic, the Davises wound up in the Supreme Court. Junior Davis had requested that the embryos be destroyed, asserting...
Once conditions are right, it doesn't take much to trigger a slide. And usually, there is very little warning. "Sometimes you hear a crack like thunder," says U.S. Forest Service research scientist Sue Ferguson, who has been caught in several small slides. "Sometimes the avalanche releases quietly, like rustling silk." Traveling at speeds that can exceed 80 m.p.h., the rushing snowpack compresses the air at its prow, generating a wind blast strong enough to smash windows and hurl skiers into trees. Once the avalanche stops, the snow mass solidifies, entombing its victims in an icy grip...
...entertainment. Every time Harvard defender Frank Bazos came near the puck, his friends would scream "FRANK!" Amos Tuck loyalists would rhythmically rattle the plexiglass surrounding the rink for each Dartmouth score. John Cullinane, Sr. watched his son and namesake play hockey for the first time in ten years. Sue McHugh sold T-shirts, helped out with the scoreboard and watched her husband tend the Harvard goal...
...every aspect of the crash. I knew we had to apologize. We put 225,000 minutes of news on the air last year, and I didn't want to be defined by those 57 seconds." Gartner also faced nonjournalistic pressures. GM's top management had sent word it would sue via the top management of NBC's parent company, General Electric, a big GM supplier...