Word: suits
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...fact, the court sounded a note of judicial restraint in another affirmative-action decision last week, when it dealt with a suit brought by California contractors seeking to overturn a requirement of the federal Public Works Employment Act of 1977 that 10% of federal public works grants go to minority contractors. The court returned the case to Los Angeles District Judge A. Andrew Hauk -who had declared the minority contractor set-aside unconstitutional-but it made no ruling on the merits of the case. It suggested only that the California suit may be moot; since all federal contracts...
Dressed in a baggy brown tweed suit, Jarvis was barnstorming through Michigan on his first foray in support of a measure to lower taxes since the success in California of Proposition 13, which he cosponsored. His appearance was part of a drive to obtain the 266,000 signatures needed by this week to get a tax-cut referendum on Michigan's November ballot. The proposition, sponsored by Robert Tisch, the drainage commissioner of rural Shiawassee County in central Michigan, would cut property assessments in half, hold future increases to 2.5% a year, and permit the state income...
...custom began six years ago, after several years in which illness, distance and conflicting engagements kept the family members apart on Christmas Day. Brizzolara, an accountant, and his wife invited their three children to try July 4. Two years ago, Brizzolara even put on a Santa Claus suit for the grandchildren...
...City Council does not approve the petition, then the University will "take some form of action, probably a suit," Wolfmann added...
...something wrong with the gas tanks in some of these Pintos that causes them to explode after a direct, though not necessarily hard, rear-end collision; this tends to fry the unlucky occupants. Late last year a California man sizzled by his Pinto won a $100-million-plus suit against Ford. Needless to say, the cars have been recalled--but apparently Ford didn't get them all. Maybe they didn't try hard enough. Maybe they did. But there are a lot of Pintos, and on Friday, two little girls in Pennsylvania died when the Pinto they were in blew...