Lawsuit flood threatens football and other sports
A Cedar Rapids Gazette overview cites the product liability crisis as a threat to football from junior high to pro levels. It details how strict liability suits price helmets and equipment out of reach, endangering schools, leagues, and dozens of sports, with calls for no fault reforms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bruns
Sporting Goods Manufacturers Association
Morgan
Oakland Raiders
Minnesota Vikings
Czechoslovakia's grim decade and Prague spring memory
In Prague on Oct 1 1968 Josef Smrkovsky warned that Czechoslovakia is at the heart of Europe and cannot be transplanted. The Prague spring reforms promised freedoms and decentralization but ended with a Soviet led invasion, purges, exile, and stagnation. Charter 77 later emerged as a defiant beacon urging future freedom.
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Prague
Josef Smrkovsky
Europe
Smrkovsky
Czechoslovakia
Soviet Union
West Germany
Moscow
Communist Party
Western
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Rawlings Sporting Goods Company
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