Word: scandalizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...will be hard, though, to come up with anything quite so convincing as micromastia. As the plastic surgeons must have realized, American culture is almost uniquely obsessed with large, nurturing bosoms. And with the silicone scandal upon us, we can begin to see why: in a society so unnurturing that even health care can sadistically be perverted for profit, people are bound to have a desperate, almost pathological need for the breast...
...been duped by CIA contract pilots using their empty planes to fly home cocaine. By last week any hint of that defense had been discarded, as had plans for calling as a witness Oliver North, the former White House aide at the center of the Iran-contra arms scandal...
Friedman and Jennings still didn't like the story. They settled the next day for inserting two lines about the alleged scandal into a piece by correspondent James Wooten about the pros and cons of being the front runner. But when Clinton appeared on CBS, the ABC executives felt obliged to do the story...
...silicone breast-implant scandal may, however, change that relationship. Anderson's own trust in the system was shattered on Dec. 12, when he sat down and read scores of Dow Corning documents, including 17 internal memos dating as far back as the mid-1970s, about silicone-gel breast implants. The information surfaced during a liability suit in Michigan. When he finished, Anderson wrote and hand-delivered both the documents and an urgent letter to the FDA demanding that all such implants be promptly removed from the marketplace. "This appeal is not made lightly," Anderson wrote. He noted that Dow Corning...
...resulting furor rattled the FDA like no scandal since the thalidomide scare of the early 1960s. Following Anderson's appeal, the agency declared a moratorium on all silicone-gel implants, pending further review. "It's the ultimate case as to why you need a strong agency," says FDA Commissioner David Kessler. Now, says Kessler, "the honor system is out the window." He promises that companies will be subject to intensive audits in which investigators will scrutinize how data are analyzed and presented by the manufacturers. Says he: "People have to know that we have the will and resolve to deal...