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Summits remind most thoughtful people that American nuclear forces contain the Soviets, that American carriers guard the trade routes and even that British Harriers in the Falklands fire American Sidewinder missiles. The real is sue in this European extravaganza is U.S. leadership. Ronald Reagan seems to understand. A Yank who has a prairie heritage, has a beautiful wife in rhinestones and knickers, and is fun at a dinner party has a lot going for him. The very for Reagan can do is go out as he did in the old days to win one for the Gipper. He was doing...
...path. As a senior at Woodrow Wilson High in Washington, D.C., she became enraged at one especially incompetent bureaucrat, typed a five-page letter detailing the person's failures, and mailed copies to every local official she could think of--200 in all. When the bureaucrat threatened to sue Pearl for defamation, the story hit The Washington Post, and her nemesis was promptly fired...
While creditors can still sue their debtors for nonpayment, the law also permits debtors who feel harassed to file suits and win up to $1,000 in penalties. The statute further empowers the Federal Trade Commission to impose fines of up to $10,000 a day per violation against overly aggressive bill collectors...
...recent years, the trend has been away from social issues and toward more personal causes. Some students, like dissatisfied consumers, sue their colleges for "fraud" when they are unable to get jobs for which they were trained. One California student sued her university for $125,000 for giving her a B+ in a course instead of an A -. Says Philip Moots, special counsel to Ohio State University, which, like many other institutions, is becoming increasingly familiar with what an Ohio State commencement speaker described as "litigation mania": "Today's students flunk and sue...
...stifled a sob. Lou looked up from a bottle of Top o' the Heather long enough to mutter, "There goes Mary Waterworks again." Sue Ann nibbled on a quiche...