Word: sues
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...President Clinton and the Republican Congress have reached an agreement on aggressive legislation punishing Cuba for shooting down two civilian planes. The President had threatened to veto a similar bill last fall just last fall, but abruptly changed course after Saturday's attack. The 'Libertad' bill permits Americans to sue foreign companies that invest in Cuban property that has been confiscated from its owners and shuts down U.S. aid. The measure's Republican sponsors say the bill will strangle Castro's regime, cutting off foreign capital. Senator Claiborne Pell, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee disagrees, saying...
...Sue Flagler and her mother, Helen Lord, are eating a late lunch together at the McDonald's on the rotary. Their conversation revolves around tableware, although their voices are often muffled by the birthday party of small children in the next room. Flagler works in special education at a public school in Keane, near her home in Richmond, N.H., just outside Keane. She describes her mother, a resident of Vermont, as a "dyed-in-the-wool Republican," although Lord says she will not vote for Bob Dole because the senator...
Afrasiabi said he intends to sue the University because, he said, Harvard officials had a "strong intent to demolish my public character...
...city's Traffic, Parks and Transportation Department requested that the wedge-shaped signs, which jutted into Quincy Street, be removed, according to department Director Sue E. Clippinger...
...MOVIES ALWAYS MAKE ME cry. Isn't that how the old pop song went? For a hundred years, moviemakers of no special talent have known that the simple act of putting a pretty thing in jeopardy--tying Sweet Sue to the railroad tracks, killing off Bambi's mom--will win an audience's hot tears and huzzahs. Sentiment, a human feeling or failing, is honorable; the uses to which it is often put are not. But that is for the individual viewer to judge. If a film touches you, you call it profound. If it has everyone around you sobbing...