Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...right-wing campus periodical who humiliated homosexuals by placing phony personal ads in a newspaper and then exposing the identities of those who answered. As a result of the Maroon's campaign, two editors of the offending publication were suspended last spring and a $10.1 million damage suit has been filed against them by some of the injured parties...
...were not." Recalls another former Harris employee, Fran Hurwitz, who worked 15 years as a clerk: "Harris was your basic boys' club." Both women left the bank during the mid-1970s, but last week they got a measure of satisfaction when Harris settled a twelve-year-old Government suit charging the bank with race and sex discrimination...
...President. She must defend her husband and smile bravely when he says stupid things. She must look great, even fashionable, when a shower and clean clothes would suffice for anyone else; possess perfect children though such critters do not exist in nature; and traipse around the globe in a suit and sensible pumps when she would rather be home with a good book. She has both a day and a night job, but is not allowed a profession of her own. Hardest of all, she has to appear to love every minute...
Trump filed a libel suit in 1985 against the Chicago Tribune's architecture critic, Paul Gapp, for having written that his plan to build the world's highest building portended "an atrocious, ugly monstrosity, one of the silliest things anyone could inflict on New York or any other city." The judge ruled for the critic. Trump even sued Eddie and Julius Trump, two South Africans unrelated to him, who had run a small conglomerate for 20 years before expanding into the U.S. in the 1970s. "They're trying to use my name," said Donald, who lost a preliminary suit. Another...
...alarming fact is that many children whose symptoms have been misdiagnosed are being given Ritalin and other powerful drugs. Since 1987, parents around the country have filed more than a dozen Ritalin-related lawsuits against doctors, teachers and school districts. In one such suit, a Washington woman claimed that the drug led her six-year-old son to attempt suicide. Complaints about depression, listlessness and insomnia in medicated % children are common. Valerie Jesson, of Derry, N.H., says her son Casey, 10, became a zombie while on Ritalin: "It knocked him into next week. His eyes would glaze, and he would...