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...primarily on a 13.7-acre waterfront estate in Center Moriches, Long Island, called Lindenmere. The paper trail begins with the lawsuit cited in the San Jose Mercury News, and a virtually identical February 1984 case that was revealed by New York City's Village Voice. In each suit the plaintiff charged that he and several partners, including Mrs. Marcos, had purchased Lindenmere in 1981 through a Cura(pi202)FIX THIS!ao-based corporation called Ancor Holdings N.V., with plans to develop the property into a $19 million resort...
Daniel Oran recently made his case against the current law suit pending in Santa Barbara (November 27), recalling the classical notions of free will, necessity, and choice. He then stretched his argument to include the modern behaviorism of B.F. Skinner, concluding that inherent in the plaintiff's argument exists a contradiction. By that be surmised that tobacco companies should not be held responsible for their product's effects, if they were in fact knowledgeable of the cigarette's effects long before the Surgeon General...
...LIVING LEGEND of Edgar Pierce Professor Emeritus of Psychology B.F. Skinner looms large in the philosophy of the plaintiff's case. For they argue, in effect, that the individual is no more than a product of his environment. The cigarette is a strong--albeit pernicious--reinforcer that the tobacco companies have made contingent on the behavior of cigarette-buying. Conveniently, this behavior increases the profits of the tobacco companies. But it also kills people...
...seems that the behaviorist position would lead us to find for the plaintiff. After all, the tobacco companies knew that cigarettes were strong, reinforcers for many people yet still sold them. But not so fast. What about the behavior of the tobacco companies...
What happened to Carol Trowbridge reveals so much about why Harvard as a landlord needs an all too cozy relationship with the University's legal counsel. To keep Trowbridge silent and her story under wraps, Harvard lawyers drafted a contractual agreement whereby the plaintiff and the defendant could never ever say another word about the events at 122 Mt. Auburn...