Word: blowers
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...takes a particular type of courage—the courage to be unpopular—to become a whistle-blower. Initially, Watkins, Cooper, and Rowley were warned to keep quiet but they kept talking, like generations of female truth-tellers before them. Look at Rosa Parks, who refused to move to the back of the bus, galvanizing the country’s civil rights movement. Retired Army Lt. General Claudia J. Kennedy, the highest-ranking female officer, was the one to expose sexual harassment in the armed forces. And it was Erin Brockovich, a minor legal clerk who helped...
...cars? Well, the cars are magnificent. All 16 are vintage European--the U.S. was master of mass production, not small-scale luxury output. Most were designed originally to race, like the 1929 Blower Bentley, with the supercharger that sits bluntly beneath its radiator to blast more oxygen into the fuel mix. Many of Lauren's cars were produced in limited editions, sometimes very limited. In the case of the plump 1938 Bugatti Type 57SC Atlantic Coupe, that means three. That may have had something to do with its improbable steel ridgeback seam, several inches high, like a Mohawk haircut that...
...think the FDA is beginning to admit, in sort of a halting and hesitating fashion, that it hasn't done a good job with drug safety," says Dr. David Graham, the associate director for science and medicine in the agency's Office of Drug Safety and its chief whistle-blower. Graham calls the latest changes "cosmetic." An FDA official counters, saying they are "significant" and promise to have "a profound impact...
...NEVER MET A WHISTLE-BLOWER WHO LIKED THE WORD. WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? What does that word mean to you? What's the connotation? Tattletale, snitch. Those are pejorative words. How about "person of conscience...
...Good Company leaves a quiz show's quantity of unanswered questions. But it has the optimism and determination of a corporate whistle-blower. It makes us believe, for a moment, that it's possible to end-run the spirit of Enron. --By Richard Schickel