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...Corning Corp., which pioneered silicone-gel breast implants in 1962, last week became the third manufacturer to abandon the market. The target of hundreds of lawsuits that could cost the company $1 billion, Dow Corning finally succumbed to the national furor that erupted over allegations that the implants can cause major health problems...
...Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein, says his firm was hampered because he turned down some clients to avoid the appearance of impropriety. "Could I have done better if my wife was home baking cookies?" asks Blum. "I think so." Another Californian, secretary of state March Fong Eu, decided to abandon her race for the U.S. Senate rather than ask her husband to disclose his business holdings. It came down to a choice between her candidacy and her marriage, she said, and she chose her marriage...
...especially abroad. At home, he wrote, they should build a more humane and fair society by, among other things, lowering working hours, paying higher salaries to workers and increasing dividend payments to shareholders. In order to pay for all this, Morita concluded, companies may have to raise prices and abandon the market- share strategy...
...Jesse L. Jackson called on the nation to come together and abandon the "bitter fruits of governance based on inequality, division, and short-term profit" during a speech at the Kennedy School of Government last night...
...began my apprenticeship when I was in fifth grade. Dr. Fitzsimmons continued to teach me about bees and prairie plants until mid-high school, when I had to abandon beekeeping for academic pursuits. In ninth grade, I struck up a friendship with Regina, the youngest of his nine children. We were united in adversity against the hypocrisies of our respective schools, both singlesex pre schools...