Word: verna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part, American Brands (1986 net sales: $8.5 billion) was sued on grounds similar to those in the Palmer case by Verna Stephen, a Pensacola, Fla., resident. Her husband Andrew died in 1984 of pulmonary heart disease and cancer at age 64, after smoking Pall Malls for 54 years. Before the case could get under way, a U.S. district judge ruled on a pretrial motion that American Brands could argue that it is not liable under state consumer laws. On appeal, the Atlanta court upheld that ruling...
...Verna L. Williams, a second-year law student and president of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), said she wrote a letter to Sarraille saying that she opposed the referendum and encouraged all members of BLSA to vote against...
...research; he also gets the enthusiastic sexual attention of Roger's wife. The cuckolded professor, who possesses an odd, out-of-body ability to witness and describe the trysts between Esther and Dale, takes this infidelity and betrayal calmly. For Roger's interest has been captured by his niece Verna, a friend of Dale's, who is the abandoned and unwed mother of a half-black infant and who lives in a housing project not far from Roger's home. Although he does not want to claim responsibility for this distant and disgraced relative, the professor is attracted...
...with George Segal the actor. And this says nothing about the lynch mob led by a lady driving a Mister Softee truck (Catherine O'Hara) that blames him for the thieves' depredations. Or about Paul's only means of avoiding their wrath, which is to permit a demented sculptor (Verna Bloom) to plaster-cast his entire quaking self. Oh, well, if you can't be an artist, might as well be a work...
...Northern California town of Orland, Donna Marley, 40, a widow, saw her December electric bill of $87 leap to $210 in a month. Neighbors Barney and Verna Cushman were shocked when their December bill of $360 surged to $624 in January. Nor have PG&E customers been the only ones hit. In San Diego, Verna Murray, a customer of San Diego Gas & Electric, thought that her $250 per month electricity payments were already excessive; her December bill exploded...