Word: suit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...arms race receding, the whole geopolitical world shifting on its very foundations, that we have had little time to notice how quickly the battle of the sexes has been heating up. These, in fact, are hard times for lovers; in the age of AIDS and the palimony suit, an affair of the heart seems less a matter of chemistry than of medicine and law and politics. The pattern now, it appears, is boy meets girl (or sometimes boy), quizzes on sexual history, comes clean with an update on his own antisocial diseases and puts it all down in writing...
...hour days. Hochschild's couples were fraying at the edges, and so were their careers and their marriages. She notes that the women did not much resemble, in their mind's-eye views of themselves, the beautiful young businesswoman of the magazine ads, dressed in a power suit but with a frilled blouse, briefcase in one hand and happy young child clinging to the other, striding eagerly into the future with hair flying...
...wore glasses, was dressed in a blue track suit and appeared haggard and distressed...
...this week even Dukakis's home town of Brookline has joined the Duke-bashing by bringing suit against the state over the aid crisis. (Yesterday's Boston Globe featured an editorial cartoon in which a toga-clad Dukakis cries "Et tu, Brookline...
Finally, there are those who argue that litigation actually slows the progress of medicine. "Innovative techniques don't get used very often for this reason," says George Miller, an orthopedic surgeon in Washington, N.C., who last year won a malpractice suit that had dragged on for "eight long years." Doctors find themselves taking a more rote approach, what some call "cookbook medicine." By following standard procedures as much as possible, the physician may hope to avoid any controversy that might arise in court -- and thus steers clear of promising, if less proven technologies and treatments...