Word: suit
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...jobs. Only 400 of the site's 2,500 minority employees have joined the Hightowers. "There are a lot of us who are afraid to step in," says an African-American worker who would identify himself only as a production operator. "We support them, but if they lose that suit, we think it's going to get a lot worse for us out there." Some plaintiffs say they have been chastised by workers who feel the lawsuit will "rock the boat" for other African Americans and anger the executives who run one of the state's most powerful companies, with...
...must be cut through. And then there's the not entirely plausible pirate attack to be beaten off. All this, naturally, provides the occasion first for bickering, then for dawning mutual respect, finally for bonding. All in all, one cannot say that originality is screenwriter Michael Browning's strong suit. You always feel that you're ahead of this movie's curve...
Mitchell was responding to a federal lawsuit filed last week by 11 black motorists and backed by the American Civil Liberties Union and the Maryland N.A.A.C.P. The suit claims that state troopers, who have stepped up efforts to nail drug couriers, have targeted blacks on Interstate 95, a favored route for weapon and drug smuggling...
...help that Chaplin, a bafflingly complex and private man, had a weakness for young girls. His first two wives were 16 when he married them; his last, Oona O'Neill, daughter of Eugene O'Neill, was 18. In 1943 he was the defendant in a public, protracted paternity suit. Denouncing his "leering, sneering attitude" toward the U.S. and his "unsavory" morals, various public officials, citizen groups and gossip columnists led a boycott of his pictures...
...Lennon was ready to quit the group. McCartney is said to have talked him out of going public with this desire; but then in April 1970 McCartney himself announced that the group was disbanding. In December he filed suit to have the partnership dissolved and a receiver appointed to handle its affairs. When the other three Beatles dropped their appeal of this action in 1971, the most fabulously successful band of all time (with more than 100 million records sold to date) came...