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Word: suits (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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What's more, a Wesleyan student last week filed similar charges against a group of schools, including Harvard. If he turns his case into a class action suit and wins, many students could be awarded damages for being overcharged. That could mean millions of dollars in your pockets and in mine...

Author: By Spencer S. Hsu, | Title: Truth From Harvard's Trust-Busters | 9/25/1989 | See Source »

...suit filed by the A.C.L.U. resulted last month in a modification of those tactics. Visitors may now obtain guest cards allowing them to stay in a building for as long as two weeks. And housing agents and police have agreed to stop house and body searches. But the sweeps go on, to the relief of tenants. "It's so much better since the sweeps," says Delores Wilson, president of a tenants group. "Before, you could hear machine-gun fire all during the day." The danger is that as they search for a way out of the drug crisis, many other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Threat to Freedom? | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

...include everything from pizza parlors to car washes; these ads are sometimes in addition to those already inserted by the studios. With the same kind of self-righteous growl a dog utters when a rival approaches his dinner bowl, Paramount, which started the phenomenon with Top Gun, has brought suit in a federal court in Wichita to stop such Johnny-come-latelies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Hoots And Howls at Ads | 9/18/1989 | See Source »

Jackson first filed suit against the B-School and its dean, John H. McArthur, in 1984 after McArthur twice denied her tenure...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Jackson Perseveres in Sexism Suit | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

Judge Douglas P. Woodlock found this summer that although Harvard "deserved to be sanctioned" for its actions, the University had not attempted to sabotage Jackson's suit. Woodlock ultimately ruled that objective standards of scholarship, and not gender, led the B-School to deny her tenure twice...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News Briefs | 9/15/1989 | See Source »

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