Word: graceful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...case involves six families living in Woburn, Mass. who accused two major companies--W.R. Grace & Co. and Beatrice Foods Co.--of contaminating the town's well water with toxic chemicals that cause leukemia. The families alleged that the chemicals caused the death of five children. Eight years later, the plaintiffs settled out of court for $8 million...
Just a few weeks after the release of "A Civil Action," the Robert Redford film based on the 1986 landmark court case Anne Anderson, et. al v. W.R. Grace, et al, the real-life cast members gathered at the Harvard Law School (HLS) last Saturday to discuss the continuing importance of their case as a teaching tool in classrooms...
...human progress is a long and healthy life. It is more often the genetic mishaps that enable us to see beyond functionality to a different essence of human value. We need to be patient because the growth rate of knowledge far outstrips our comprehension. It is only with the grace of understanding that we can make wise judgments about the use of knowledge. KEN WHELAN San Francisco...
...Laden, who so often refers to God, confess to being pleased at the bestial killings achieved "by the grace of God"? How can he justify the murder of innocent people in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam--women, children, men, some of them probably Muslim. Of course he cannot. This unmasks him as the kind of leader he really is--a bloody, murderous terrorist. WILLIBALD SONTAG Koblenz, Germany...
...then, of course, Mathis administered the coup de grace. Some people, he wrote, have already suggested that by accepting the consequences of his actions, the principal "has actually set a better example for our children than a certain scandal-plagued President...