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Though unsettling, these studies are far from conclusive. They contradict about 30 previous surveys, nearly all of which indicated that the Pill is safe. Last week an advisory committee of the Food and Drug Administration met to review the handful of studies suggesting otherwise. The panel's conclusion: the evidence is too weak to warrant a change in pill use or a new warning label. But the group admitted that the issue is not settled and called for further research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: New Perils of the Pill? | 1/16/1989 | See Source »

Kevin G. Baker, the lawyer representing complainant Lisa J. Schkolnick '88, said the document may cast doubt on the club's claim to be a private group. He said that although he has not yet seen the document, it appears to contradict evidence submitted by the club to MCAD, evidence Baker said was "factually erroneous...

Author: By Ross G. Forman, | Title: Fly Club's Privateness Questioned | 11/4/1988 | See Source »

...around, and yet we are trying to live in the lockstep mode of modern society. No other species would put up with having to sit at a desk all day. And yet here we are trying to live according to bizarre economic and institutional social rules that seem to contradict our species nature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ecotopia A Land Where Ideals And Sensuality Reign | 10/31/1988 | See Source »

...provision of the patrolmen's contract "supercedes the [Police Review Board] ordinance," said Robert Wise, lawyer for the Police Patrol Officer's Association. Wise argued that the civilian board's actions contradict a "bill of rights" in the contract that governs officer interrogation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police to File Grievance Over Review Board Action | 10/18/1988 | See Source »

...dispute his claim that he did nothing more exciting than play golf. But in the November issue of Playboy, due on newsstands Oct. 1, Parkinson (who is pictured posing nude) will make some new allegations about Quayle's activities that weekend. Her charges are unsubstantiated and, in fact, contradict some of her previous accounts. But they are likely to provoke another unwanted flurry of publicity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Republicans:The Quayle Quagmire | 8/29/1988 | See Source »

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