Word: suits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent months the trade has been in retreat. Responding to growing public indignation, many industrialized nations have declared a moratorium on ivory imports. Among them: the U.S., France, West Germany, England, Canada and Australia. Japan and Hong Kong, the centers of the trade, followed suit. In Africa nations have declared war on the poachers. Thousands have been arrested, scores killed and tons of illicit tusks seized. Most significant of all, consumers are beginning to understand the link between their ivory baubles and trinkets and the mutilated carcasses from which they came. If regulation fails, consumer revulsion to ivory...
Donald Duck should be thankful he is a Disney cartoon character and not a real bird at Walt Disney World's Discovery Island zoological park. After a two- month investigation by the Florida game and freshwater fish commission, the state attorney's office and the Federal Government have filed suit against the company and five employees for alleged cruelty to animals. Among the charges: firing rifles at hawks, beating vultures to death with sticks, and disturbing the nests and eggs of egrets...
...plot of La Bicyclette Bleue (The Blue Bicycle), a 400-page 1981 best seller by French novelist Regine Deforges. This week Deforges and her publishing company, which she now owns, are fighting to save their own fortunes in Paris, where they are defendants in a plagiarism suit brought by Mitchell's heirs...
...been an influx of military retirees and career switchers from other professions -- some 2,500 in all during the 1987-88 school year. These recruits have helped reduce teacher shortages and have reinvigorated the classroom. Last spring Bush proposed $25 million in grants to encourage other states to follow suit; the measure awaits congressional action...
...drama Playing for Time. Politics also excluded her from being cast in the Broadway drama Plenty. That same year, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, allegedly fearful of disruptions and of losing donor support, dumped Redgrave from scheduled performances as narrator of Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. She brought a civil rights suit pleading that "people's livelihoods should not depend upon their holding 'correct' political views." The U.S. Supreme Court last January rejected her bid for a punitive-damages award, although it let stand a judgment of $39,500 to cover lost employment -- an amount far smaller than the legal fees...