Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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James Harvey should have quit while he was ahead. The unemployed Jacksonville construction worker was offered $1,500 by the Adolph Coors Co. last July after he claimed to have discovered a dead mouse in a 16-oz. can of the firm's beer. Harvey refused, demanding as much as $50,000 compensation for being subjected to an unexpected drinking companion...
Deciding that enough was enough, Coors balked, and the state of Florida has filed extortion and consumer-product-tampering charges against Harvey. Exhibit A: tests showing that while the sealed beer can left Coors months earlier, the mouse itself had been dead for only a week or less. After surrendering to authorities in Macon, Ga., Harvey now sits in a Jacksonville jail, where the strongest drink available is a can of cola...
...billion to $1.2 trillion. Brazil, Mexico and Argentina owed $283 billion at the end of 1987, some $30 billion more than they had when the plan was announced. In the meantime, economic growth has stagnated for most debtor countries. Concludes New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley: "The Baker plan is dead. Let us do the decent thing: bury it and start anew...
...least, so reports Dr. Raymond A. Moody Jr. in Elvis After Life (Peachtree; 1987), a collection of interviews with people claiming psychic experiences involving the dead singer. Moody even cites a woman who believes her young son is the King reincarnated. Her son believes it too. "Yeah, I'm Elvis Presley," he affirms in a familiar drawl. "I died, and I came back...
...intense search reflected the anguish of American families who still cannot be certain whether their missing loved ones are alive or dead. With a persistence born from desperation, they continue to demand a full accounting of the 2,393 servicemen listed as missing in action in Southeast Asia, 1,757 of whom were lost in Viet Nam.* "The driving force is the uncertainty," says Ann Mills Griffiths, executive director of the National League of Families of American Prisoners and Missing in Southeast Asia. "We are determined to seek answers...