Word: suit
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many opponents of the China deal rallied round Republican Senator Barry Goldwater, who in his text for a televised reply to Carter said: "The President called into question this nation's treaty world." Goldwater credibility filed suit in throughout the federal court in Washington to test Carter's authority to end the 1954 defense treaty with Taiwan. Contending that no treaty can be terminated without a two-thirds vote by the Senate, Goldwater called Carter's decision "an out right abuse of presidential power...
...contracts between June and December; the pattern is usually set by the General Electric settlement in June. Most of the unions, again sensitive about imports, are expected to concentrate on job security, and if moderate wage settlements are reached in other industries, the electrical workers will probably follow suit...
That did not please Summers, by then a law student. She filed a civil suit against Polumbo in 1975, alleging both physical and emotional wounds. A court awarded her $12,000 in damages, but Polumbo did not pay. So Summers' attorney invoked a rarely used 1842 Connecticut statute that allows the indefinite imprisonment of a wrongdoer who has not paid his damages, as long as the creditor pays the prisoner's upkeep. For twelve days Summers kept her attacker locked in the Hartford jail, a revenge that cost...
...Black Author Margaret Walker Alexander filed a similar suit against Haley, charging plagiarism from her book Jubilee, but a New York federal judge ruled against...
Some time during this Christmas season, a father selecting a suit for his son or a sugar daddy eying a bauble for his woman friend will pull out a plastic credit card to pay for it, and the U.S. consumer will be $1 trillion in debt. Figuring that in an inflationary period the wise person borrows while the fool saves, the consumer has been piling on debt at a quickening rate, buying new houses, new toys and just about everything else. Private debt now averages more than $4,600 for each man, woman and child...