Word: suits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...summer job with the Justice Department. During a routine background investigation, a question was asked that floored Bishop: "Are you living with anybody?" Her answer cost her the job. The department's rationale: cohabitation out of wedlock is "widely regarded as a sign of low character." Bishop filed suit. Last week the Justice Department signed a consent order stating that it cannot refuse to hire someone solely because he or she lives out of wedlock with a person of the opposite sex. Bishop, 33, was pleased, but the ruling did not come soon enough to help...
...exam would require a cost to the student of $80 or more. Insisting that "there is a definite limit to the number of high quality questions that can be generated," the Association of American Medical Colleges, which tests about 5,000 New York medical school applicants annually, has brought suit challenging the constitutionality of New York...
Please, oh please, Harvard, listen to my pleas. Where other Harvard institutions have fallen--Wellesley women, the Porcellian Club, and expungement--do not force Pinocchio's to follow suit. What Mom's apple pie is to America R.F. D., what Walt Disney is to puerile pubescents, and what cocaine is to the Studio 54 crowd--Pinocchio's pizza is to me. Fair Harvard, can't you grant one last wish to an embittered senior, before he ventures off into that frozen wasteland, that tasteless tundra, of Gino's shake 'n bake pizza...
...cuts a formidable figure these days--football quarterback on a hot streak--making the long climb to his Kirkland lair. But somehow a name like that seems to demand a suit of armour and a damsel in distress. Yet Judson Burke St. John will settle for a plastic football helmet and a triumph with his mates over the dragons of New Haven...
Maclaughlin laces his boots, puts on his jump suit, goggles and helmet. As jump master, he oversees the strapping in of the first three he will guide out of the plane. He picks three of us and indifferently directs us toward the suit up area. He kids us although we are grim faced and jokes with his comrades with the same type of wildness that would make him chuckle and shrug when hearing of a chain saw massacre...