Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perform the most operations in a day. According to the investigators, Dr. Ming K. Hah of the Chicago Loop Mediclinic and Michigan Avenue Medical Center may provide the fastest and most painful abortions in Chicago. He makes a pencil mark on the leg of his scrub suit for each abortion and tallies them up at the end of the day. In their haste, doctors often fail to remove all the necessary tissue. Sometimes they perforate the uterus or vagina...
...youth does not dwell on this point, and McEwan never links Jack's pathology to society at large. Preachiness and moralizing would only direct attention away from the immediacy that is the novel's strongest suit. Seen from the inside, the characters are simply beleaguered children trying to cope and, ultimately, failing. Outsiders find their degeneration criminal; the book shows the inadequacy of such a judgment. Aberrant acts fascinate because of their strangeness, and those who perform them are rarely able to make their reasons clear. The Cement Garden suggests that the most terrifying thing about such behavior...
Earlier this month, members of a graduate dorm filed a class action suit against the town of Amherst to force inspection of their apartments. The town, hoever, refused to conduct the health inspections, claiming that state law excludes it from any authority over state-owned buildings...
...ruling is a "very fine thing to happen, because it will help the suit quite a bit," Steven L. Baumohl, the lawyer for Jose G. Trejo, one of the tenants of of the dormitory, said yesterday...
Trejo said yesterday, "It doesn't seem proper for the university to inspect the university," adding that he initiated the suit in response to ventilation and drainage problems in his apartment...