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When the testimony ended, Judge Peter Leisure sent the jury out with 155 pages of instructions, containing 61 questions of fact for them to resolve. Juror Margaret Lilienfeld, a retired foundation aide, admitted that at first "there was some confusion." In fact, Juror Miriam Sanchez was so confused by the instructions that she reportedly told news people after the verdict that she had wanted an award of $300 million but had agreed to $1 because she believed Judge Leisure could amend it upward to a proper sum. She was mistaken: though judges often lower damages if they are not warranted...
...information session on the jobs that deaf workers can effectively perform drew representatives from 20 local companies. Some firms are looking overseas for aid. Last October Grumman, the Long Island, N.Y., aerospace company, hired 28 engineers from Britain for six months to help design U.S. military aircraft. Says Miriam Reid, a Grumman spokeswoman: "We did it as a last resort. There's always been a shortage of engineers, but it is becoming more acute...
...something preposterously overdone but without self-knowledge or irony. It is comic and sad and awful. An 18th century French merchant of great wealth named Beaujean came to the same dead end as Marcos with his Swiss gold and his ruined kidneys. "He owned amazing gardens," the historian Miriam Beard wrote of Beaujean, "but he was too fat to walk in them . . . He had countless splendid bedrooms and suffered from insomnia . . . a monstrous, bald, bloated old man in a bed sculptured and painted to resemble a gilded basket of roses...
...drug abuse is not just a by-product of life in the fast lane. Drugs are also used by multitudes of blue-collar workers to relieve the deadening boredom of menial jobs. Says Miriam Ingebritson, clinical director for a St. Louis-based consulting firm that provides drug-therapy services for IBM, the Cincinnati Reds and the City of St. Louis: "Frequently we find that it is not the exhilarating high that people are looking for, but rather to escape from tedium...
...problem is just as severe at Countway Library in the Medical School, library officials say. "I estimate that one-third of the collection is crumbling on the shelf," says Miriam H. Allman, assistant librarian for collection development and management. Deterioration is a problem that "needed attention before it became so severe that it couldn't be remedied," she says, explaining that several volumes which were sent for preservation had deteriorated so much that they could not be microfilmed...