Word: dows
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...promised. "There are just too many sick women," Ralph Knowles, the plaintiffs' attorney in the class-action suit, announced today. "I didn't think it was going to be anything like that. If I did, we would never have agreed to the $4.25 billion." Discussions are underway to convince Dow Corning, Bristol-Myers Squibb and other implant makers to add billions more to what is already the largest product-liability settlement in U.S. history. A partial analysis of claims finds that more than 70,000 women likely would be eligible to get money in the first wave of payments. Women...
...then, the University had been through the mobbing of Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara, the Dow Chemical sit-in, the Paine Hall protest, the University Hall occupation, the Bust, the Strike and a score or more of other incidents...
Going to business school still seemed like adefiant political statement that many didn't wantto make. Those who did had in some ways the lastlaugh as we moved into our 30s and the Dow movedinto the thousands...
...things can get in the way of a 5000 Dow: runaway inflation for one, or at the other extreme, a severe recession. But if the analysts are right, we'll get to 5000 and then some, possibly within the year. Remember you read it here first, unless, of course, the analysts are wrong, in which case it was their mistake all along...
...days like grazing beasts--not good, not evil, just hungry. They form green-sounding lobbying groups and contribute millions to lawmakers. Something called the "National Wetlands Coalition" raised $7.8 million from British Petroleum, Georgia Pacific, Kerr-McGee and Occidental. The "Clean Water Industry Coalition" raised $15.8 million from Caterpillar, Dow, Du Pont and Union Carbide. Al Meyerhoff, of the Natural Resources Defense Council, says, "Industry lobbyists are writing laws and legislative history. They're doing everything but voting, but maybe that's next...