Word: suiting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Price gouging can be punished by a fine of $10,000. A retailer in Boston who charged $1.57 for unleaded was hit with a civil suit by federal officials; a U.S. District Court ordered him to roll the price back 70?. Despite such actions, however, black marketeers vastly outnumber DOE inspectors. "If we ever have the personnel and the time to investigate, we could uncover some incredible stuff," says a DOE official. But the department, which is scheduled to have 800 inspectors by mid-1980, needs thousands to enforce the scheduled prices. It has little prospect of getting them...
...where Weber was employed, even though blacks made up 39% of the local work force. To close that gap, the company and the union decided to accept whites and blacks into the program at that plant on a 1-to-1 basis. When the program rejected Weber, he filed suit. Federal courts upheld his claim; they ruled that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bans any racial discrimination in employment, no matter whether the bias is against blacks or whites...
Kodak officials were naturally delighted with the decision, though their court troubles may not be over. Berkey may try to appeal Kaufman's ruling to the U.S. Supreme Court, or it can return to the district court with the part, of its suit that Kaufman said must be retried (this involved alleged abuses by Kodak of its dominant position in the photographic-paper market...
...hours later, Carter was back in Washington, preparing to take on the Senate's SALT opponents and vowing: "We will win." Pausing only to change into a fresh blue suit and to hide the shadows of fatigue under his eyes with a dusting of powder, Carter strode down the aisle of the House with an air of self-confidence. For 35 minutes, he addressed a group of Congressmen, Senators and other dignitaries, speaking somberly and forcefully and glancing frequently in the direction of Scoop Jackson, the most outspoken of the SALT opponents. The President appealed to the Senate...
...trial of the century "ends in his acquittal ill the foreman please stand," said an official of the court. A gray-haired woman, dressed in a blue suit, rose to her feet. "What say you?" inquired the official, reading the first charge, conspiracy to murder. "Not guilty," she replied. There was a stir in Courtroom No. 1 of London's Old Bailey that was immediately hushed by cries of "Silence!" The official continued by asking the verdict for all four defendants. Each time the reply was "Not guilty." Then the official asked for a second verdict, to the charge...