Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Over the next few months, four drug companies will introduce similar versions of the transdermal nicotine patch, a palm-size circular envelope that, when applied to the upper arm or back every 24 hours, releases a steady stream of nicotine into the blood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association found that the patch, when administered with proper counseling, doubled the odds that smokers will successfully quit over a six-month period. "It's a major breakthrough in medicine by any measure. It could save thousands of lives," said Dr. Jack Henningfield, chief of clinical...
After 10 days of wrenching, confusing and graphic testimony, it took the six-member jury only 77 minutes to find William Kennedy Smith not guilty of raping a woman at his family's Palm Beach estate last Easter weekend. The swift decision raised questions about the prosecution's case, which boiled down to pitting the accuser's harrowing tale of being pinned to the ground and violated against Smith's equally vehement denials. Many prosecutors would have dropped the case as unwinnable. Why then did State Attorney David Bludworth and Moira Lasch, his chief felony attorney, decide to press ahead...
...Bludworth may deny it, the fact that a Kennedy family member was involved may have played a role in his decision to prosecute. Seven years ago, he was accused of kowtowing to the family by not thoroughly investigating the drug-overdose death of Robert Kennedy's son David in Palm Beach. Bludworth, who faces re-election next year, risked renewed accusations of a cover-up had he declined to move against another Kennedy...
...suspicions were further aroused when the Kennedys gave police investigators what seemed to be a runaround. William Barry, a former FBI agent who was staying at the compound, incorrectly told detectives that Senator Edward Kennedy had left for Washington when in fact he was having lunch at the Palm Beach estate. For two weeks the family rebuffed police attempts to survey the grounds where the alleged assault took place. That was sufficient time for the wind and sea to obliterate any evidence that might have corroborated the woman's story. A grand jury may decide this week whether to indict...
...seem to have been swept away last summer when three women came forward to claim that they too had been sexually attacked by Smith. Each described how an initially charming Smith had turned violent once they were alone with him -- eerily mirroring the account of the woman in the Palm Beach case...