Word: suit
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...allow her to use charged, non-legal terms like “rape” and “assailant” in her testimony. Chambers, a long-serving political dynamo and a member of the state senate’s judiciary committee, considered the woman’s suit such a waste of time for the county’s justice system that he filed his own suit—against God—apparently to make the point that, within county law, literally every case has the right to be heard, regardless of its apparent merit or validity...
...explain the current financial crisis to me? No, I can only say that I hope you have done what I did, which is to buy a lot of gold, melt it down and build a suit of armor out of it so you can fight your way out of the food riots that will occur in the near future, probably next Tuesday...
...inspired in global markets has given way to more classic concerns among traders of a looming economic downturn - or quite probably recession - undermining the business activity and results of traded companies. That souring of spirits was evidenced Wednesday with indices sliding across Asia and Europe, and Wall Street following suit with...
Smith: In a more benign way, I would point to Eisenhower ... It was famous around the White House that if [he] was wearing a brown suit that day, stay away, because you didn't want to be around him. George Washington spent a lifetime trying to control his temper, not always successfully. Eisenhower probably did a more successful job, but that's not public ... On a brown-suit day, he was irritable. He could be curt, but ... most of the time, [he was] much more politically sophisticated than he wanted the public or the press to believe...
...Which happens to be his strong suit. Through 4 1/2 hours of high-stakes presidential debating, Obama never looked unprepared, even for an instant. He looked slippery now and then - they all do. He looked boring sometimes. He even seemed to strive for boring, to understand that boring is good for the candidate in the lead...