Word: morasses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Because there were literally tens of millions of potential plaintiffs, the defendant drug companies hoped that the courts would turn their backs on the whole morass on the ground that it was "unmanageable." But they did not reckon with Judge Lord, a former Minnesota attorney general who is the latest jurist to rule on the matter. "There are no unmanageable cases," he said. "There are only lazy judges." This week Lord will okay the last major settlement for American consumers. So far, the cases figure to cost the companies a total of $175 million in damages...
Humble Beginnings. There was a certain poignancy in her predicament. Early in the first Nixon Administration, Miss Woods openly mistrusted the tactics of some of the Nixon aides, notably Haldeman, whose insensitivities contributed to the Watergate excesses. Now she, too, seemed caught in the morass...
...book about life with Paulus [Oct. 8]. But upon further reflection. I think her demythologizing will undoubtedly further public interest in a closer study of his writings, with the added insight that here was a philosopher-theologian whose wisdom sprang not from an antiseptic ivory tower but from the morass of personal anguish at being much too human...
Struggling to recover his balance, Richard Nixon last week stumbled into yet another Watergate morass. Now it was the mystery of the missing tapes. Conceded one of his closest legal advisers: "We've created a credibility cul-de-sac of such monstrous dimensions that even the most innocent transaction appears suspect...
...from Houston had barely accepted the job when he was asked if he wished it had never been offered to him. "Yes," quickly replied Leon Jaworski, 68, the man named last week to succeed Archibald Cox as the special prosecutor charged with getting to the bottom of the Watergate morass once and for all. "It's a terrible job," Jaworski's wife said when she heard the news. "I just feel sorry...