Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...train. She wore a veil of silk tulle, and her crystal-beaded satin sandals were from Manolo Blahnik, designer of pricey, fashionable shoes. In her hands, covered by long white gloves, she carried a small bouquet of lilies of the valley. The groom wore a dark blue single-breasted suit, designed by Gordon Henderson, with a white pique vest and pale blue silk tie. His boutonniere was made of cornflowers, the favorite flower of his father, and he wore his father's watch...
...made a deal with the prosecutors: he pleaded no contest to one count of income-tax evasion and resigned his office--the first Vice President ever to be forced from office for legal reasons. The government agreed not to pursue Agnew further. But in a Maryland taxpayers' suit, a civil court found in 1981 that Agnew had solicited $147,500 in bribes as Baltimore county executive and as Governor--and that he had accepted the final $17,500 in cash when he was Vice President...
...bowel had been nicked in the surgery, and she was succumbing to a massive infection spawned by leaking feces. Two days later she died. And last week Strunk's survivors announced that they had agreed to accept $3 million from the hospital in full settlement of a wrongful-death suit...
Also set for November is the trial of a consumer-fraud lawsuit filed by the California Nurses Association against the 508-bed Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. The suit claims that the hospital enforced a gag rule on its employees to "cover up the essential nature" of its patient-focused care plan. Viki Ardito, Alta Bates' acting vice president of patient-care services, calls the lawsuit frivolous: "It's about maintaining the union's people and their dues...
...Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian and Supporter's Association (BGLSA) will be changing its format to better represent sexual orientation groups on campus and to suit the needs of a larger membership, group leaders said...