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...Padres had a right to gulp when they arrived in Chicago and found that the four makeshift umpires breaking the strike (and mangling the strike zone) hailed from the Illinois townships of Deerfield, Des Plaines, Northbrook and Arlington Heights. Anyone who could read the signs at Wrigley Field (MY HUBBY FOR A CUBBY) and the signals everywhere else around the country knew that there were few impartial observers anywhere. When the tournament shifted to San Diego, the amateur umps were brought in from Arizona, and the Padres were revived...
...jacket to flash the label. In fact, the only part of his wardrobe not from Sears is shoes. Reason: his 13 A size is too rare for his stores to keep in stock. Telling's only ostentation is that he often rides to work from his home in Northbrook, Ill., in a company limousine or sometimes drives himself in a sleek black Jaguar. He defensively points out that the Jag belongs to his wife Nancy...
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Small customers were once reluctant to sue big manufacturers, but that is no longer true. In 1980 Quality Books Co. of Northbrook, Ill., a publisher and wholesaler, took out an advertisement in the Wall Street Journal to ask if anyone was experiencing the problems it was having with a Burroughs B-800 minicomputer. The company received 400 replies, and is suing for $1.9 million. By the following year, Burroughs acknowledged that at least 160 other lawsuits had been filed by users of the B-800 and similar models. Most of the suits have since been settled out of court...
...work of a private testing firm responsible for evaluating the health and safety hazards of some 212 chemicals, primarily pesticides and herbicides, during the '70s. The study concluded that there had been a pattern of sloppy and fraudulent testing procedures by the firm, Industrial Bio-Test Laboratories, of Northbrook...