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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...billion he borrowed to acquire the company, Bilzerian sold eight of the company's twelve divisions. A group of 9,000 retirees has filed a $235 million lawsuit against the company, accusing Bilzerian of plundering Singer's pension plan. The U.S. Government is suing the company for defense-contract fraud, seeking $231 million in damages...
...says Dr. Paul Volberding, an AIDS specialist at the University of California at San Francisco. The haphazard use of experimental drugs may help some AIDS patients in the short run, but it will slow down the quest to discover the best ways to treat the many people who will contract the disease in the future...
...Whalers have kept tabs on MacDonald throughout his college career, and began contract negotiations shortly after he completed his collegiate career in early April...
...Pittston miners worked without a contract for 14 months after the firm demanded cost-cutting changes in work rules and health and pension benefits. Last week United Mine Workers president Richard Trumka called upon other labor unions to support the strike. Speaking at a rally in Charleston, W. Va., attended by leaders of the airline-machinists and communications-workers unions, he said, "It's time that we stood up as a large family and fought back." But so far, it is mostly the miners who are aflame...
...Reconstruction-era statute to make her case of racial harassment against her former employer. Among other things, she claimed that she had been asked to do menial tasks because she was black. Speaking for the majority, Kennedy said the statute prohibited "the refusal to enter into a contract" based on race, but not discrimination involving "postformation conduct" under a contract. Sniped dissenting Justice William Brennan: "What the court declines to snatch away with one hand, it takes with the other...