Word: counters
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fitting symbol of the drug manufacturer's dramatic response to ! the tragedy. Only the day before, Burke had announced that Johnson & Johnson would no longer sell any of its over-the-counter drugs in capsule form. The pharmaceuticals maker saw the move as the best hope of preventing a recurrence of the still unsolved poisoning of Diane Elsroth, 23, of Peekskill, N.Y., who died Feb. 8, after swallowing two Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide. Said Burke at a press conference: "We take this action with great reluctance and a heavy heart. But since we can't control...
Recent controversy over CIA sponsorship of the research of two Harvard professors foreshadows the kind of damage that politics brings to the funding process. The CIA reserves the right to censor work which it sponsors; but censorship of research findings runs counter to the policies and spirit upon which universities are based. While the CIA is not Congress, the CIA funding episodes suggest that Congress might ask in the future for similar freedom-constraining privileges in return for research grants...
...course, conservative isolationism is matched in many respects by a liberal and, even more odd, by neo-liberal isolationism (call to mind Sen. Gary W. Hart's presidential campaign) that has destroyed the Democrats' ability to counter Republican foreign policy with any measure of credibility...
...Johnny would lure the thieves into talking about their crimes and giving their names and addresses. "Where did you steal it?" Johnny would ask. Eager to brag, many would supply the full details, even showing off the tools they used. All the while, a video camera concealed behind the counter recorded...
...limit on "contingency fee" arrangements, whereby lawyers take on a case for a sizable share (often one-third) of any settlement or court award. Doctors grumble that such fees encourage lawyers to press for outrageous judgments as a way of fattening their own take. But without contingency agreements, lawyers counter, only the wealthy could bring suit...