Word: stated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Oddly, the two finest works that Deskey commissioned and Hardy has reinstalled haven't been on display for years. Stuart Davis' witty Men Without Women was exiled a few blocks north to the Museum of Modern Art in 1975, when the Music Hall was in such a state of desuetude that at some performances less than 10% of the seats in the immense auditorium were filled. Hardy had a potent ally in his effort to yank the Davis painting back from MOMA. Jerry I. Speyer, the manager and co-owner of Rockefeller Center, is vice chairman of the museum...
Lawrence Kurdek, Ph.D., the Wright State researcher who wrote the seven-year-itch study, said that its grim statistics actually made him hopeful. "Knowing the pattern of marriage relationships might help couples stay together, if they can come up with positive ways to cope with it," he says. "We have to build into marriage the idea that there will be lots of change...
...Thinking: Big Tobacco knowingly sells a defective product that, when used exactly as intended (i.e., you smoke the thing), addicts the consumer to nicotine and eventually sickens and kills him. Big Tobacco should pay billions in damages, not only to smokers and their families but also to state governments to cover the smokers' Medicaid expenses...
Finally, Orey focuses on Mississippi attorney general Mike Moore's brainstorm: his novel lawsuit against the entire tobacco industry to recover the state's Medicaid costs. The idea worked with thermonuclear effectiveness, blowing tobacco's safe and unlocking the dirty billions...
...Henry A. Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State...