Word: suits
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Assistant Professor Clare Dalton filed a gender discrimination suit yesterday against Harvard Law School, which denied her tenure bid last...
...ranges from the romantic to the practical. "It probably serves as a psychological boost for me to not feel as citified as I am," explains Nora Kelly, 29, an attorney in a conservative Albuquerque law firm and owner of a lipstick-red Wrangler. "Even $ if you're wearing a suit, the jeep is ready to take you somewhere exciting." Jennifer Griffith, 24, of Springfield, N.J., bought her Ford Bronco two years ago in order to cart materials while working as a construction engineer, but she has found that it is equally well suited to her current position as a paralegal...
...lineman Gene Upshaw, who may not be offensive enough for a labor leader, denied the Players Association was mortally wounded. "They definitely took a hunk of flesh out of us," he said, "but we're not busted. We're still here." Announcing that the union had filed an antitrust suit against the owners' "blatant display of monopoly powers," Upshaw said, "We've tried bargaining, we've been on strike. Now we'll let the courts decide." They intend to challenge the basic N.F.L. contract, the reserve system, even the college draft...
...local reporters into her bedroom and lifted the quilted coverlet of her bed to reveal a carpet-to-mattress wooden base. "It is impossible for me to hide under my bed," said the President. Perhaps hoping to give Beltran a sleepless night or two, she filed a libel suit against him. Besieged by leftist and rightist rebels as well as by a rumormongering press, Aquino last week explicitly raised the possibility of declaring martial law if needed "for the greater good of the country...
Dennis Orsen's reasons for being at the festival are mainly evangelical. A balding Lutheran pastor in a pale suit, the peripatetic Orsen recently settled in nearby Steubenville and found the local culture as difficult to crack as a Zen riddle. Someone suggested he read James Wright. And has this helped at all? "There's one poem about football -- when I saw that, I said to myself, boy, that explains a lot of what I'm working with," he answers...