Word: suited
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Even now I see myself lugging my overstuffed suitcase through South Station, wearing a canvas hat and a double-breasted brown suit (bought by mail form Montgomery Ward) and feeling fairly ridiculous. My stepfather had said everyone in Cambridge wore hats, and it may have been true when he was at the Business School in the late '20s. I wore it in the rain occasionally. The suit I can only believe was born of some movie-influenced fantasy and I never wore it again...
...just a coincidence that mention of Chinese unmentionables is popping up now? Probably not. The suit bears the hallmarks of a well-timed legal offensive designed to exploit the growing controversy over renewal of China's most-favored-nation (MFN) trading status, which lowers U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports. President Clinton supports the measure, but opponents, who include religious and human-rights activists as well as industries fearful of low-cost Chinese competition, plan to make Beijing's alleged transgressions their Exhibit A. Referring to the ballooning $40 billion U.S. trade deficit with China, Gary Bauer, head of the right...
...practices continues to mount: on Wednesday, even as the FTC charged R.J. Reynolds with unfair advertising practices, charging that its Joe Camel campaign targets children, the state of Florida decided to dump $825 million worth of tobacco stocks invested in its retirement plan. In July, the first class-action suit against the industry is set to begin in Mississippi...
...Richard Nixon was ordered to hand over the Watergate tapes, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that Paula Jones can immediately pursue her sexual harassment case against President Clinton. Arguing that the Constitution protects sitting Presidents from having to answer civil lawsuits, the White House had sought to have the suit delayed until after he leaves office in 2001. Lawyers for Jones, a former Arkansas state employee who alleges that then- Governor Clinton exposed himself and propositioned her in an Arkansas hotel room in 1991, told reporters they plan to begin deposition within a month to gather documents and witness statements...
KENNETH STARR What's in a name? High court rebuffs his desire to be called "the United States" in suit...