Word: groves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defendants are going to pay for it harshly," said Illinois Judge Ronald J.P. Banks last week as he sentenced three officials of the now defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. of Elk Grove Village, Ill., to 25-year prison terms. Banks had earlier ruled that the managers were guilty of murdering Employee Stefan Golab, who died in 1983 after inhaling poisonous cyanide fumes inside the plant. During the trial, F.R.S. workers testified that their employers had not warned them of cyanide's dangers. In fact, they said, at management's behest some skull-andcrossbones warning symbols had been scraped off cyanide...
...since expanded to a chain of five dry-cleaning outlets, which are managed by the Nams. "We should work harder than other Americans," he says. "Otherwise we cannot succeed." Signs of the Nams' success include an attractive four- bedroom home in the upper-middle-class city of Garden Grove and two late- model U.S.-made cars...
Golab, 61, died at the FRS plant in Elk Grove Village, Ill., ten minutes after collapsing near a vat of cyanide, which is used to help recover silver from exposed photographic film. Other FRS workers testified that the plant reeked of bitter almonds, cyanide's telltale odor. Cook County Medical Examiner Robert Stein said death was caused by "acute cyanide toxicity," and that during the autopsy, Golab's chest cavity had smelled so strongly of almonds "that it hurt both the eyes of myself and my assistant." After rendering his verdict, the judge revoked bail for the defendants...
...plights are predictable. One senior manager wrote Grove of a recent invitation to a party at the home of one of the firm's managers. "While I was there, I noticed a group gathered outside on the patio. I guess I'm naive, but I decided to join the crowd. Well, they were smoking grass, and they had other drugs available." The reader declined to participate, but feared that "I may be too conservative." Grove firmly approved of his correspondent's actions...
...Grove acknowledges his own limitations, as any credible advice columnist must do from time to time. A recent exchange went this way: "I am young, female and blond. Almost every time I deal with a male client, I'm 'hit on.' I want to be nice, but I'm finding it harder and harder to be nice to someone who talks to my breasts instead of my face." Grove's response: "Not being young, female or blond, I find myself unqualified to give you suggestions. Businesswomen, please write and tell me how you have been coping with this problem." "Dear...