Word: livers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...faced a possible 300 years in prison and fines of $103,000 when he appeared last week, gaunt and obviously unwell, for sentencing by U.S. District Judge Charles Norgle. "The man is dying," Defense Lawyer Patrick Tuite asserted, and Norgle announced that because the defendant suffers from a rare liver disease, he was setting the penalty at only twelve years in prison. LeFevour had been charged with taking some $400,000 in bribes to fix drunken-driving cases and parking tickets in Cook County traffic court. Declared Norgle: "Richard LeFevour had to decide whether to remain an honest judge. Again...
Composing an ad with oneself as the product is an interesting psychological exercise, and probably good training in self-assertion. Truth will endure a little decorative writing, perhaps. The personals are a form of courtship that is more efficient, and easier on the liver, than sitting in bars night after night, hoping for a lucky encounter. Yet one feels sometimes a slightly disturbed and forlorn vibration in those columns of chirpy pleading. It is inorganic courtship. There is something severed, a lost connection. One may harbor a buried resentment that there are not parents and aunts and churches and cotillions...
...Indianapolis-based company pleaded guilty to criminal charges for not informing federal officials that Oraflex had been linked to deaths and illnesses in foreign countries before it was approved for consumption in the U.S. Lilly also failed to warn consumers that Oraflex could have side effects on the liver and kidneys. In a plea bargain worked out with the Justice Department, Lilly (1984 sales: $3.1 billion) pleaded guilty to 25 counts of unintentional deception, a misdemeanor, and was fined $25,000. Lilly's former chief medical officer, Dr. William Shedden, was fined $15,000 on similar charges...
...that often strikes AIDS victims. In one study reported in Houston, just five out of 52 patients with advanced melanoma were successfully treated with interferon. But this handful was extraordinary: all signs of cancer disappeared within four months, even though the disease had spread to such organs as the liver and lungs...
...Class of 1935, at some of the at least. "broke into the Radcliffe dormitories and rushed though the halls in search of the missing "We want our bell-clapper and we want liver." The Crimson reported at the time. "By this time [in Brattle Square] eggs were flying merrily...