Word: squibb
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Charles A. Sanders, general director of the Massachusetts General Hospital for the past nine years, is leaving that post to become an executive vice president of the Squibb Corporation, the pharmaceutical-based international conglomerate...
...permitted in a courtroom." He has not lost a case before a jury in twelve years, even though he regularly takes on the polished lawyers who represent powerful corporations. The multimillion-dollar losers include the Kerr-McGee energy conglomerate, for allowing Employee Karen Silkwood to be contaminated with plutonium; Squibb, for marketing an inadequately tested pregnancy-detection drug (Gestest) that apparently caused birth defects; and, most recently, Penthouse magazine, for a 1979 article that libeled a former Miss Wyoming, Kimerli Pring. The jury awarded her $26.5 million last month, a record if it survives court challenges by the magazine. Next...