Word: ward
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When Luther and Ida Aguchak failed to make payments on their new snowmobile and freezer, Montgomery Ward went into small-claims court in Anchorage, Alaska. A summons was issued and mailed to the Aguchaks, who live in a remote Eskimo village 500 miles away. Though they received the notice, the Aguchaks had neither the time nor money to make the $186 overnight air trip that was necessary to get to court. When they failed to appear to answer the summons, a default judgment was entered against them, and that seemed to be that...
...quite. On the advice of a Legal Services lawyer, the Aguchaks sued, arguing that the action by Montgomery Ward violated the due-process clause of the state's constitution. Last month the Alaska Supreme Court agreed. Noting that the U.S. Supreme Court has held that due process must be "appropriate to the nature of the case," the Alaska justices unanimously concluded that the outlying areas of their state presented special problems. Indigent rural defendants, they said, not only would find answering a summons difficult, but few of them would be near enough to a lawyer to get advice...
...from Riverside than Walter Sullivan even though Walter's family has been in the area as long as mine. Al Vellucci got 36 (count them) votes down here, not even a tenth of what I got. Not even, as it happens, as many votes as I got in his Ward...
...borders of Neighborhood Nine, which corresponds to voting Ward 9, is bounded on the south by the Cambridge Common; Concord Ave. on the west; Porter Square on the east, and by the B and M Railroad tracks to the north
Registered Cambridge Democrats of the Sixth Ward, of which Harvard dorms are a part, will caucus tomorrow at 10 a.m. in the Cambridge Community Center. They will choose six delegates from the ward to go to the Eighth Congressional District Caucus on June...