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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...corporations. The multimillion-dollar losers include the Kerr-McGee energy conglomerate, for allowing Employee Karen Silkwood to be contaminated with plutonium; Squibb, for marketing an inadequately tested pregnancy-detection drug (Gestest) that apparently caused birth defects; and, most recently, Penthouse magazine, for a 1979 article that libeled a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring. The jury awarded her $26.5 million last month, a record if it survives court challenges by the magazine. Next month in Salt Lake City, Spence shoots for his biggest haul yet-$110 million-when he squares off against Utah officials on behalf of the widow and children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: The Fastest Gun in the West | 3/30/1981 | See Source »

Lest anyone miss the point, Alternate Delegate Richard Schifter, a Washington attorney, delivered a broadside against the Soviets. Invoking "the lessons of the Hitler era," he charged the Soviets with "thinly veiled antiSemitism" with its attacks on Zionism, and characterized the Soviet Union as a state whose "atheistic doctrine seeks to stamp out all creeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Human Rights: A Chilly Debut | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...simple sex. It moves out of reality into an erotic ballet that touches everything: compulsion, love, death. Jessica made me sexy. She does that. Few are the men who do not want to fall at her feet. She's a big, consensus movie sex bomb." Miss Scarlett, meet Mr. Butler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Post Mark of Cain | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Appalachians, the ideal hiking season is somewhat later. If you hold off until August or September you may miss some of the most beautiful Applachian flowers, but you'll also avoid the black flies and insects...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Boots and Tents and Maps | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

...break room that I got my chance to flirt with Jill, an undiscovered sex goddess. Unlikely, you say? How about 14th runner-up-in the Miss New York State contest? She would toss her perfectly coiffed sand-colored hair, hazel eyes twinkling, and say. "So you go to Harvard...

Author: By William F. Hammond, | Title: Folding Cardboard in the Back | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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