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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less traumatic option for some disk patients. Known as percutaneous automated diskectomy, it is an outpatient procedure performed under local anesthesia through a tiny (2 mm long) incision in the back. Developed by Radiologist Gary Onik and Neurosurgeon Joseph Maroon of Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh, the operation breezed through its clinical trials, and has been performed on some 15,000 patients around the country -- at approximately one-third the cost of conventional surgery...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Back Surgery Without Stitches | 9/5/1988 | See Source »

Order in the court, for Federal Judge Hubert I. Teitelbaum of Pittsburgh, apparently means keeping women in their place. During a civil proceeding, Teitelbaum, 73, threatened Attorney Barbara Wolvovitz with jail because she insisted on referring to herself as Ms. Wolvovitz rather than Mrs. Lobel, after her husband. Protesting in her behalf, Wolvovitz's co-counsel Jon Pushinsky found himself held in contempt and handed a 30-day suspended sentence for "officious intermeddling." When Wolvovitz asked for a mistrial last week, Teitelbaum said, "What if I call you sweetie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pittsburgh: Call Him Foolish | 7/25/1988 | See Source »

From 1969 to 1975, the former Pennsylvania governor-turned-Harvard-academic, was the U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh. He then moved to Washington to become the assistant attorney general, heading up the criminal division from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornburgh No Stranger To Department | 7/12/1988 | See Source »

Born on July 16, 1932 in Pittsburgh, Thornburgh is the son of an engineer and grandson of a professor. He graduated from Yale in 1954 with a degree inengineering and went to law school, and thenpracticed law in Pittsburgh. He married his secondwife in 1963, Virginia "Ginny" Judson, who hasworked to help the handicapped and mentallyretarded...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thornburgh No Stranger To Department | 7/12/1988 | See Source »

...thus turning one company's dispute into a national issue. He is leading consumer boycotts, demonstrations and letter-writing campaigns against companies who have directors who also sit on IP's board. Thus the targets include Avon Products, Coca-Cola, Bank of Boston and the PNC Financial Corp. of Pittsburgh. In some cases, the leverage will be strong. At Rogers' urging, a district council of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees is threatening to withdraw $15 million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor's Boardroom | 6/20/1988 | See Source »

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