Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Free expression has taken some hard knocks lately. Protests caused a Manhattan theater to temporarily cancel a production of Terrence McNally's new play, which reportedly features a depiction of a gay Christ figure. In Japan, school officials cut a John Updike short story about three bathing suit-clad girls from a textbook, saying it would disrupt classes. In South Carolina and Tennessee, high schools canceled Indigo Girls, top, concerts because of offensive lyrics. And in Alabama, a minister banned the singing of Stevie Nicks' Landslide at a baccalaureate service, saying she is a witch and Satan worshipper...
...Georgia Tech Yellowjackets, whose mascot is Buzz the bee, have filed suit against the Salt Lake City Buzz, a minor league baseball team whose mascot is Buzzy the bee. Both teams sell merchandise with BUZZ on it; Tech says it has the rights...
...Chanel's return to the fashion world has been variously attributed to falling perfume sales, disgust at what she was seeing in the fashion of the day or simple boredom. All these explanations seem plausible, and so does Karl Lagerfeld's theory of why, this time around, the Chanel suit met such phenomenal success. Lagerfeld--who designs Chanel today and who has turned the company into an even bigger, more tuned-in business than it was before--points out, "By the '50s she had the benefit of distance, and so could truly distill the Chanel look. Time and culture...
...weeks after Princeton announces major increases in its financial aid program, Yale does the same. In the next month, Stanford and MIT follow suit. President Neil L. Rudenstine promises Harvard will keep its aid within "shouting distance" of other colleges...
Just two weeks later, Yale University followed suit, with a less-nuanced plan which ignored the first $150,000 of family assets--including home equity and savings--in calculating family contributions. These changes were applied to all current undergraduates as well as incoming students...