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...descent was precipitous. At the time of his divorce, Ferguson began working for Ademco, a burglar-alarm manufacturer. A year into his job, however, he fell from a stool, receiving a back injury that led to his termination. He sued for compensation, won a $26,250 judgment but, for some reason, tried to reopen proceedings with the New York State workers' compensation board. He complained that he was a victim of racial prejudice and rejected state-appointed doctors sent to examine him because their surnames sounded ethnic and not black. Eventually, Ferguson, who wrote and called incessantly...
This awed my father, who doesn't get awed by much He climbed onto a stool and examined the post. I suppose he tried to figure out how it had been hammered in, whether it had strained over the years, whether it had grown brittle--he didn't say what he was thinking...
Robert M. Broggi '94 wanted Diane and Sam to get married. Horowitz had his own plan: "Woody's elected President; Sam, Diane, and Rebecca all go off to a desert island together, and Norm gets bronzed in his bar stool...
...patients. About 90% of people whose tumors are found early are still alive five years after their diagnosis. That figure plummets to less than 10% once the cancer has spread beyond the intestines. However, according to a recent study, the most widely used screening test, which detects blood in stool samples, misses more than 70% of all tumors...
...former employee also said workers were permitted to handle feces from stool tests, in paper envelopes instead of the more costly barrier envelopes required under federal guidelines. Skane's memo makes no mention of envelopes...