Word: dowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...safety questions had emerged over the past several months in lawsuits against silicone manufacturer Dow Corning Corp., as well as in testimonials from several medical specialists. The panel concluded that many allegations, including the suggestion that the implants caused cancer or neurological damage, were scientifically groundless. But it gave more credence to reports of recipients suffering rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma, a rare connective-tissue disorder. The experts also found that the silicone sacs could rupture 5% to 10% of the time -- far more frequently than Dow Corning had previously conceded. "You can buy a tire with a 40,000-mile...
...probably wouldn't be out of line for Bush to entice a major industrial sponsor. He tried it with J.C. Penny's earlier this year. He also recently co-opted Arnold Schwarzenegger to campaign for him. If Bush went for Diet Coke or Dow Chemicals next, he might start faring better in the polls. And he would have much more interesting commercials...
...textbook case of crisis mismanagement. Hit by hundreds of lawsuits and a federal probe into the safety of its silicone breast implants, Dow Corning spent much of the past year hunkered down in a defensive crouch -- stalling investigators, sitting on evidence and minimizing the complaints of women who said the devices caused them pain, disfigurement and serious autoimmune disorders. By the time the Food and Drug Administration called for a ban on the implants last month, Dow Corning's health and safety problem mushroomed into a public relations disaster...
...large degree, Dow made a virtue of necessity. The FDA had threatened to make the documents public anyway, and some of the most damaging information had already leaked to the press. Still, the firm's moves last week reflected a new public relations savvy, if not a heightened corporate conscience. First it stopped the hemorrhaging of bad news by putting out all the documents at once. A few hours later, it announced the bold management changes...
...Dow Corning's new chairman, Keith McKennon, a veteran of Dow Chemical's Agent Orange and dioxin crises, promised to cooperate with the FDA and hinted that the company might even help women who wanted their implants removed and could not afford the surgery. But Dow Corning's problems are not over. Last week a congressional committee asked for a criminal investigation into the firm's handling of implants. Among the evidence: a 1980 memo from a Dow Corning salesman complaining that the company's decision to put "a questionable lot of mammaries on the market . . . has to rank right...