Word: claremont
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Genung Claremont, Calif...
...victims and an increased willingness of Americans to bring suit. Insurers are pressing for legislation to ease their burden by shortening statutes of limitation, putting a lid on lawyer contingency fees, and setting up Government reinsurance funds. But plaintiffs' lawyers insist that large awards often benefit society. Says Claremont, Calif, Lawyer William Shernoff: "I've seen case after case in which a company reformed shoddy business practices after being hit with punitive damages. It really works...
...changing times. "In the context of 1868, the framers were reaching out very far to require equal treatment by states as to race," says Historian Harold Hyman of Rice University. "They left definitions vague, and that's good constitution drafting: leaving details to posterity." Adds Leonard Levy of Claremont Colleges: "We can't be governed by the dead hand of the past...
Cheryl Walker, an assistant professor at Scripps College in Claremont, California, will lecture on "American Women Poets: A Room of their Own" in the Colloquium Room on the first floor of Agassiz House in Radcliffe Yard at 3:30 p.m. Walker is now working on a book on American women poets, volume she hopes will detail the social influences on women poets and examine their lives and poetry closely. Her lecture will focus on a theme that has fascinated women poets for years: the sanctuary. Walker will discuss Emily Dickinson, Sara Teasdale, Elinor Wylie and Sylvia Plath...
...Claremont, Calif...