Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Will Cambridge Mayor Thomas W. Danehy get the City Council to join an injunction suit against the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA)? Will the MBTA listen to Cambridge citizens as they cry rape? Will the Red Line ever be extended from Harvard Square to the Alewife Parkway...
...Line Alert, a coalition of three Cambridge resident groups, filed Wednesday in federal district court to ask for an injunction against construction activities by the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority (MBTA). The success of this suit may hinge on the city's role in the legal battle...
...places like Columbia, the University of Chicago, and Harvard. The speeches are so much alike they prompted critic Alston Chase to write in September's Atlantic Monthly that with the Core, Harvard is only "reinventing the wheel." Chase warns that the rest of the educational world may blindly follow suit without trying anything more innovative...
Squeeze gave way to ouch last week as Chase Manhattan and Citibank lifted their prime lending rate to businesses from 9¾% to 10%, the highest since January 1975. Other banks are expected to follow suit. The action, reflecting a steady tightening of money by the Federal Reserve Board, substantially increases the risk of a credit crunch and a deeper economic downturn next year than most experts were forecasting a few months ago. The hike is certain to pull up other rates and dampen spending by boosting the cost of corporate loans and, eventually, of consumer borrowing...
...caused top California wine-men to pop their corks. BATF has already received three complaints from other winemakers and says it will act on them as quickly as possible. Officials at Sebastiani, one of the brands the ads show losing, say they are prepared to bring suit against Coke. Peter Mondavi, chief of Charles Krug Winery, questions the honesty of the ads. Says he: "It's deceiving the public to compare their premium wines with our table wines." Even some members of San Francisco's Vintners Club expressed surprise. Club Chairman Jerome C. Draper said...