Word: suit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been exonerated in a second suit charging that keyboards marketed by the company causecarpel tunnel syndrome. A U. S. District Court held that neither production defects nor design flaws in keyboards marketed by IBM and Atex were responsible for reporter Larry Lewis' carpel tunnel syndrome. Last month IBM won a similar decision from a Minnesota jury. Lewis, who has been a reporter for 30 years, said he wanted to show that "you can get carpal tunnel from a computer." However, hand surgeon Dr. Morton L. Kasdan says that will be a difficult thing to prove. He says that there...
...buddy Clinton has also been accused of possessing. At the same time, no amount of accommodation seems to placate Southern conservatives. Last week Congressman Nathan Deal of Georgia became the nation's 78th elected Democrat to become a Republican since Clinton's election, and others are expected to follow suit or to quit rather than make the switch. "Democrats have gotten over denial, and now they are in shock about their future," concludes James Thurber, a political scientist at American University. "And their future looks pretty grim...
...Suit That's Taylor-Made...
...prolonged squeak of something being dragged over a hard surface, like a knife on a plate; repetitious rock drumming; voices reciting mantra-like inanities; and (in its own room full of TV monitors titled Clown Torture) the hoarse voice of Nauman, dressed as a clown, in a baggy suit of vertical stripes that slyly recalls the garb of concentration-camp prisoners, shrieking, "No, no, no, nonono!" while writhing and jerking on the floor...
...when MGM auctioned off a good part of its priceless heritage, Reynolds was there to buy costumes worn in some of the studio's famous films, including Leslie Caron's plaid suit from Gigi and Clark Gable's uniform from the 1935 Mutiny on the Bounty. "I just started buying on an emotional level," she says. "But after I had bought all this stuff, it struck me: Wouldn't everybody love to see this?" For years, without avail, she tried to interest moguls in financing a movie museum in Hollywood. Then she rolled sevens in Vegas...