Word: torts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Ford Motor Co. in damage suits resulting from the design of the firm's Pinto: " I don't think there is anything unfair in the concept of a national agency setting national standards for a product. I would hate to see the policing of industries done through tort [personal injury] suits, because you get such mixed signals through litigation...
Those who have read her 125 decisions on the Arizona appeals court, which deal with such routine legal issues as workmen's compensation, divorce settlements and tort actions, see her in the mold of judges who exercise "judicial restraint." "She tends to be a literalist with acute respect for statutes," said Frank O'Connor's colleagues consider her decisions crisp and well written. "Mercifully brief and cogent," said McGowan. "Clear, lucid and orderly," said Frank. But one Supreme Court clerk finds her writing "perfectly ordinary-no different from any other 2,000 judges around the country...
...workers are better educated than those in the past, their expectations are higher. Many younger Americans have rearranged their ideas about what they want to get out of life. While their fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers concentrated hard upon plow and drill press and pressure gauge and tort, some younger workers now ask previously unimaginable questions about the point of knocking themselves out. For the first time in the history of the world, masses of people in industrially advanced countries no longer have to focus their minds upon work as the central concern of their existence...