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...including Robitussin cough syrup, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea and tick collars, last year generated record sales of $632 million. But the 119-year-old pharmaceutical firm is now facing financial ruin because of a $3 item it has not sold in a decade: the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device. Deluged by more than 12,000 lawsuits charging that the Dalkon Shield was responsible for countless serious illnesses and at least 20 deaths among the women who used it, Robins last week filed for protection under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code. The move could suspend...
...passengers and their baggage has been routine at all major terminals since the mid-1970s. Individuals must pass through a metal detector, and carry-on luggage is examined, usually by an X-ray machine. These devices can occasionally be fooled: lead-lined bags sold to protect film can shield weapons from detection, and metal foil can sometimes be used to distort the shape of an image. It is up to the operator of the X-ray machine to insist on opening a bag for closer inspection when a blank mass or an unusual image appears on the screen. Checked luggage...
...condemned to rely for its survival on a suicide pact between two hostile states. He envisioned a comprehensive, impregnable system of exotic, space-based missile killers that would, in his phrase, render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete." Some advocates of the program, however, would settle for a more modest shield designed to protect American missile sites...
...state may not ban nondeceptive advertisements even when the attorney is soliciting clients with very specific legal problems. Columbus Lawyer Philip Zauderer had been reprimanded by the Ohio Supreme Court for placing a series of modest newspaper ads in 1982 that showed a line drawing of the Dalkon Shield IUD. Zauderer's text said the device was alleged to have caused injuries and other health problems for women and suggested that victims could still sue, even though the device had been off the market for years. Zauderer eventually filed lawsuits for 106 women who read...
Even the slogan has been cut back this year. Unlike past years, no clever motto has been created. Instead there is just a big Harvard shield with the number 60 next...