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...stall doors, which were replaced Tuesday, had been removed in 1985 when two undergraduates and a University employee filed formal complaints of harassment in the bathroom...
...stall doors were ordered a few months ago and installed as soon as they arrived, said Science Center Facilities Manager Paul J. Kelly...
...part because of endless lawsuits filed by and against the large corporations -- including U.S. Steel, Dow Chemical, Exxon Corp. and Allied Chemical -- charged with polluting. Bryant Conway, an attorney who represents a landowner with property near the Petro Processors sites, says the companies he deals with use lawyers to stall the cleanup process by legal means. "None of the ceos of these companies wants to have the costs of this thing show up on his watch," he says. "It doesn't do anything for the bottom line...
...wait for Bill Clinton, or Hillary either? They are taking what seems like forever to come up with a national health-care plan. And when they do, Congress may stall some more and change the plan beyond recognition. So states, companies and even the medical profession are pushing ahead with their own plans to cut costs, streamline care and extend coverage to more of the uninsured. "If anyone believes we are waiting for the Administration's final package or for congressional action on that package, he's wrong," says Roger Tracy, director of community-based programs at the University...
Doesn't everyone love to find out from The New York Times that Woody Allen won't take a shower in a stall that has a drain in the middle of the floor? These days, television movies go into production before the smoke clears. Barbra Streisand and Sharon Stone roam the corridors of power. And politicians are starting to buy infomercials to sell their wares like so many cans of spray-on hair. Most people wouldn't consider these positive trends, but they're wrong. Dead wrong...