Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royer conceded last year, "It became clear that while we have some people who are hurting, there are some who are hurting us." The city passed an ordinance last fall making "aggressive begging" punishable by as much as 90 days in jail and a $500 fine. Minneapolis lawmakers followed suit in February, ruling that no person shall "grab, follow, or engage in conduct which reasonably tends to arouse alarm or anger in others." Portland has also passed a "pedestrian-interference" law. Some officials admit that the ordinances are hard to enforce but are useful as a threat. Says Seattle Police...
...program's medical office for an unpleasant surprise. He was informed that he had tested positive for AIDS antibodies during his required physical exam, then dropped from the program. "The world was pulled out from under me," recalls Dorsey, who has no symptoms of AIDS. Last month he filed suit in federal court in Washington demanding reinstatement...
...hours, but a week later he was transferred to a prison in San Diego, in preparation for yet another move to a facility near Phoenix. Fearing that Martin was beginning a regimen that inmates call "bus therapy" -- being transferred from facility to facility -- both Martin and the Chronicle filed suit against Rison, two other Lompoc officials and two officials of the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Says Jeffrey Leon, Martin's attorney: "We believe he was punished as a direct result of his article, and that is illegal...
...bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds' dad, in Jupiter ((Fla.)), gave me a meal." Then there was the time Hogan donned a gorilla costume and checked into an empty cage at the Baltimore Zoo, with the help of authorities. Sufficiently sauced, Hogan nearly suffocated under the suit, but no one would pay attention to him until he hurled bananas at the crowd. Finally, a kid screamed, "Mommy, a blue-eyed gorilla!" and the crowd recognized that it was looking at no ordinary gorilla. The Enquirer photog went to work documenting the event...
...cuteness)) and fresh energy." Yamato made 100 of the figures before the Foreign Ministry called the firm's attention to a critical article about the mannequins in the Washington Post. The company stopped production. Sanrio Co., the manufacturer of a well-selling line of toys and gift items, followed suit. Its products included large-eyed dolls called Sambo and Hannah, and towels, bags and stationery goods decorated with pictures of the pair. Along with a big-lipped black doll named Bibinba, the line brought Sanrio more than $11 million in sales last year. "We were making a summer item...