Word: shielding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hotel in Las Vegas in 1980 (85 dead, hundreds injured), and the collapsed skywalks at the Kansas City Hyatt Regency Hotel in 1981 (113 dead, 186 hurt). Robins Zelle's latest big victory came last fall with an estimated $38 million settlement for 199 clients injured by the Dalkon Shield...
...nickel-size birth control device that sold for $3 and was supposed to be easy and effective to use. But the Dalkon Shield proved a health menace to some users, and it has been a continuing financial nightmare for A.H. Robins, which stopped manufacturing the intrauterine contraceptive more than a decade ago. Robins, whose products include Robitussin cough syrup, Chap Stick lip balm and Sergeant's flea and tick collars, last week reported a 1984 loss of $462 million, giving the company a net worth of minus $128 million. Reason: the lingering and costly legal side effects of the Dalkon...
...Virginia-based company (1984 sales: $632 million) said the loss was caused by the creation of a $615 million fund, the largest in a pharmaceutical liability case, that the company set up to cover pending and future claims filed by women who bought Dalkon Shields between 1971 and 1974. The firm stopped marketing the product in the latter year, following the reported death of a user. Since then, more than 12,000 people have filed suits claiming that the Dalkon Shield causes pelvic infections, sterility and infected miscarriages. The device, which was bought by some 2.9 million women...
...reputation to enhance (except in France) and lacking the really big talents that would bring Nielsen points by their very presence. Lewis has to rely on a barrage of sympathy-grabbing images to make people even a little concerned. USA for Africa does the exact opposite, attempting to emotionally shield people from the problem while taking credit for solving it. And while a starving African might not care who paid his food bill, for a performers to entice money out of rabid fans and then allow the media to place a halo over has head nicely fits the definition...
Secrecy has long been the most controversial aspect of the proceedings. Grand juries have always met behind closed doors to protect the reputations of the accused and to shield jurors and witnesses from possible retaliation. "There's one woman who was a witness in the Goetz case who was scared to death," District Attorney Robert Morgenthau says. "If her name was disclosed, she wouldn't have testified." But critics say the secret presentation of evidence allows the prosecutor to use the grand jury as a political pawn. "The opportunity for abuse is too great and the opportunity for scrutiny...