Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collect a dime from the attaché. Two years later, a car driven by a Senegalese embassy chauffeur struck and killed a 19-year-old road worker in suburban Virginia. The embassy carried no liability insurance on the car, and the victim's family could not then bring suit for damages against the embassy's chauffeur...
Anthony Philip Henry of Dayton, Ohio, has a deep-seated belief that the words In God We Trust on U.S. currency are blasphemous. Last week he tried to take his case right to the top: the White House. Wearing a white karate suit and carrying his well-thumbed Bible, he scrambled over the fence from Pennsylvania Avenue and managed to scamper 15 yards onto the White House lawn before being met by at least eight Secret Service agents and uniformed guards. Thereupon the slightly built, 35-year-old gate crasher whipped out a three-inch knife from his Bible...
...court dismissed the suit brought by MATEP--the shell corporation that owns the projected $110 million project. The suit, had it been successful, would have enjoined the DEQE from blocking construction of the plant...
Letty, occasionally wondering why romance has passed her by, is careful about her appearance, the kind of woman who "saves" her new tweed suit. Marcia is eccentric and suspicious. Although she hardly eats, she constantly adds to a large hoard of tinned food; she mysteriously refers to an operation she had several years previously, little knowing that her mastectomy has become common knowledge. The two women are the first to leave, and some weeks later they are invited for a reunion luncheon by Norman and Edwin, their former officemates...
...most big cities, small consumers complaining to service stations and businesses about slipshod auto repairs or faulty appliances as often as not might as well hoot at the moon. Many do not know about consumer complaint agencies or how to bring a small claims suit. The idea of hiring a lawyer is intimidating, and the legal fees involved in pressing a claim often turn out to be larger than the possible rewards. But in San Francisco, gypped citizens can bring their consumer gripes to a baby-blue 1953 van operated by the city-getting advice, and often redress, for absolutely...