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...Assailants have no idea that what they are doing has devastated a life," says Peg Ziegler, director of Atlanta's Rape Crisis Center. "They think, 'It's just sex. She's had sex before. What's the big deal?' " As one rapist put it, "There has to be some point in every rape where the woman relaxes and enjoys...
...audiences with tales of the agency's absurdities, such as its instructions on how to climb a ladder ("Begin by facing the ladder"). President Reagan has backed away from his goal of dismantling OSHA, but he has checked its zeal. "They've succeeded in gutting enforcement," charges Peg Seminario, associate director of health and safety for the AFL-CIO. Between 1980 and 1982, OSHA reduced its workplace inspections by 17%, follow-up inspections by 87%, citations for willful violations by 91% and penalties...
...team identified beguilingly as AHEPA, which, even some of the players forget, stands for the American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association. Any White Sox scout might have found Kittle, but the fact that it was Pierce means something to South Siders, who are also pleased to recall that it was Peg-Legged Bill Veeck who signed the young slugger. For Veeck still owned the team in 1978 and was presiding at Comiskey Park on the famous September day when Ron Kittle came...
...president, described the man who was to make medical history. Those qualities, together with his obviously urgent need, convinced the university selection committee that Clark should be the world's first human to receive a permanent artificial heart. "He was a man worth waiting for," said Committee Member Peg Miller. Those same traits enabled Clark to endure the arduous operation on Dec. 1 and to struggle for 112 days through the perilous and uncharted territory of life with a plastic heart...
...University of Washington dental school. Father of three, the strapping 6-ft. 2-in. Clark prospered in his Seattle practice and, before his heart began to weaken six years ago, honed his golf handicap to six. "I've done everything I wanted to do in life," he told Peg Miller. "Now if I can make a contribution, my life will count for something." If that meant dying on the operating table, he was prepared. Shortly before surgery, Clark reached for the hand of Una Loy, the high school sweetheart he had married 39 years earlier, and said, "Honey...