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Dates: during 1980-1989
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P.O.V. (PBS, debuting July 5, 9 p.m. on most stations). A ten-week series of documentaries, each reflecting its maker's individual point of view, premieres with a pair of short works: Acting Our Age, a profile of six elderly women, and American Tongues, a look at regional dialects...
...because as a final gesture, she turned her stubbornness against the tobacco companies that sold her the cigarettes. She and her husband Tony filed a liability claim, which she made him promise to pursue after her death, though no one had ever won such a case against a cigarette maker. Last week the five-year-old lawsuit made history when a six-member federal jury in Newark ordered the Liggett Group, maker of the Chesterfield and L&M brands, to pay Tony Cipollone $400,000 in compensatory damages for its contribution to his wife's death. Of more than...
...people of Lawrenceburg, Tenn. (pop. 15,000), have one word they want to holler at Electrolux, the Stockholm-based appliance maker: Nej! The term (pronounced nay) is Swedish for no and expresses the intense local resentment toward Electrolux's two-month-old effort to buy Murray Ohio Manufacturing, a Tennessee bicycle and lawn-mower manufacturer that employs 2,900 workers at its Lawrenceburg plant...
Last month, a sit-in at the Law School Dean's office by the Black Law Students' Association brought a quick response. University officials taught the students how to use the office coffee maker and arranged meetings between them and administrators--while quietly posting guards around other University buildings. When the sit-in ended, the law students received only general promises that their concerns would be addressed in accordance with existing policies...
Over the years, the group has endorsed umpteen political candidates, taking them around to meet factory workers as well as the movers and shakers in the Latin community. Led by an 80-year-old former cigar maker named Virgilio Fabian, the men are virulently Democratic, a sharp contrast to the largely conservative Cubans only a couple of hundred miles away in Miami. Earlier this spring the group rallied around the presidential candidacy of Albert Gore. Since Gore dropped out of the race, the new favorite is Michael Dukakis...