Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Koskoff's suit points out that in some ads, the insurers claimed 1 million product liability suits are being brought each year; the Interagency Task Force put the figure at no more than 70,000. At least one jury verdict, in a Milwaukee suit, was thrown out because a juror brought an insurance ad into the jury room. Still, says Douglas Alspaugh, Aetna Life & Casualty advertising director, "when you try to affect people's thinking, you can't help whether they take their awareness into a jury room or a cocktail party...
...like to see freshman basketball coach and former Notre Dame star Ray "Dice" Martin suit up for one game to see if he can still...
...former defensive left end for the Baltimore Colts, collided with an aluminum yard marker in 1972, suffered a severe knee injury, and was later forced to give up the game. Now, in an unprecedented legal case, Smith, 32, is asking $1.5 million from the N.F.L. in a negligence suit. He claims that officials failed to remove the marker in time when the action flowed toward the sidelines. To help his case, Smith brought in Sportscaster Howard Cosell, who told a Tampa, Fla., courtroom that after his accident Smith was "a shell of a player." It was all too much...
...exploration. In a sale held 18 months ago, 39 oil companies paid $1.13 billion to lease drilling tracts in the Baltimore Canyon, an area east of Atlantic City, N.J., that may contain up to 1.4 billion bbl. of oil and 9.4 trillion cu. ft. of natural gas. But a suit by New York's Suffolk County, which is worried about the impact of oilfield accidents on its $ 1 billion-a-year fishing and recreation businesses, has kept the oilmen ashore. "It's not fair," laments an oil company executive. "The Government is holding a billion dollars of our money...
...APATHY OF THE STUDENTS at Harvard seems to suit many professors and administrators just fine. Even though the core curriculum issue cannot compare to the Vietnam war, many Harvard officials still remember well the unsettling period when students became much too concerned about having a say in how Harvard conducts its affairs. The fear of aroused students perhaps still lingers. No one likes to share power, especially the administrators of an elite university. Besides, what the students don't know well, won't hurt them...