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Should television be liable for inspiring such violent crime? Last week the Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to try an $11 million negligence suit filed by the victim, Olivia Niemi, and her mother, Valeria Pope Niemi, against NBC and the Chronicle Publishing Co., owners of KRON-TV. Niemi's lawyer, Marvin Lewis, charges that by depicting a graphic rape scene in a movie aired at 8 p.m., when many children are watching, the network and the station are responsible for her daughter's rape...
These are not isolated examples. According to Economist Albert Niemi of the University of Georgia, between 1950 and 1975, the rate of economic expansion in the South averaged 4.4% annually, v. 3.4% for the U.S. as a whole. The main thrust at first came from an increase in manufacturing. Since 1970, however, service industries, such as banking, real estate and retail trade, have been the fastest growing. They now provide the region with 54% of its gross product, up from...
Weightmen Kevin McCafferty. Dan Jiggets and Captain Steve Niemi anchor down the muscle department for the squad, whereas Kent Womack and Lance McGinnis, both from Yale, will be in charge of the spear-chucking chores...
...Steve Niemi, Harvard's only other competitor at the meet hammered his way to a tenth place finish in the you guessed it, hammer throw...
...Niemi's throw of 192 ft 8 in was his lifetime best. Cross-river rival Boris Djerassi of-Northeastern was the eventual winner of the event...