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...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...

Author: By Joe Mathews, | Title: UHS Laboratory May Be Probed | 4/5/1993 | See Source »

...lieutenants cut deals with the law. Over the past year, 270 so-called pentiti provided unprecedented details of the Mob's workings and helped investigators tighten the net around its chief. According to some sources, the tip that led to Riina's arrest came from at least one such stool pigeon who put more faith in the authorities' promises than in Riina's forgiveness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gotcha, Godfather! | 1/25/1993 | See Source »

Larry O'Keefe's shining moment happened in the prologue of a Loeb Mainstage production. "I was once an Earl who induced erotic hallucination by putting his head inside a tutu and drawing the noose around him. And one night there was no stool. So, my manservant realized this, and he first got a stool that was too short, and then one that was too long, and finally he came back with a big black chair that was marked with an "X" and all the time we were cutting and pasting our dialogue...

Author: By Ganesh Ramakrishnan, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: DRAGONS AND DRAG | 11/19/1992 | See Source »

...week. We actually were going to do ten days in the U.S., but we did like five or six shows when Cordell [Crockett, UKJ's bassist] broke his leg. So we cancelled the last few shows and got back on the Ozzy tour, with Cordell sitting on a stool for the first part of the tour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NUMBER ONE MOST-REQUESTED ...and all that shit | 10/15/1992 | See Source »

...final show, Carson dispensed with guests and spent the hour reminiscing and screening clips from past years. "And so it has come to this," he said, perched on a stool at the end. He thanked sidekicks Ed McMahon and Doc Severinsen and expressed a hope that if he returns to TV, viewers will "be as gracious in inviting me into your homes as you have been." Then, fighting back tears, he said simply, "I bid you a very heartfelt good-night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: And One for the Road | 6/1/1992 | See Source »

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