Word: thursdaye
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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WHEN HELD Annually, on a mid-September weekend beginning on Thursday night...
...Last Thursday a Maryland appeals court upheld that ruling. Within a few weeks, Cornilous could be taken from the heartbroken Maryland woman with whom he has spent almost all of his short life and who wants to adopt him. The case has drawn national attention and fueled a bitter debate over the courts' strong bias in favor of "family preservation." Complains Bill Pierce, president of the National Council for Adoption: "It is not in Cornilous' best interest to be part of a social experiment to observe what might happen if Latrena Pixley is given one more chance...
These were the sorts of thoughts one had while sitting with Brown, Weinstein and Galotti last Thursday afternoon in the midtown Manhattan hotel room where they had been holed up taking phone calls and giving interviews since announcing their new venture the day before. With assistants and publicity folk fluttering about like bridal attendants, one had the feeling of being at the white-hot center of the world. If there is to be a culture clash between Brown and Galotti--both used to the bottomless largesse and stylish cool of Conde Nast--and the more profane, tightfisted world of Miramax...
...Padro, 63, has filed the first lawsuit against Pfizer Inc. -- claiming that Viagra gave him a heart attack ?- and at $85 million, it?s a lulu. "He was perfectly healthy, and five days after he started taking Viagra -- bam," said Ronald Benjamin, attorney for Padro and his wife, Maria, Thursday after filing the suit in state Supreme Court against the maker of the impotency treatment drug. "The warning about Viagra to the medical profession is inadequate...
WASHINGTON: The defense industry is now as consolidated as it?s going to get. Succumbing to fierce opposition from both the Department of Justice and the Pentagon, aerospace giant Lockheed Martin threw up its hands Thursday and abandoned its planned $8.3 billion acquisition of Northrop Grumman. The lesson: Don?t fight the Pentagon ?- that?s what it does best. After giving its blessing in 1993 to consolidation and ushering in a feeding frenzy of takeovers and mergers, the Pentagon decided that enough was enough, and it would accept nothing less from Lockheed than complete surrender...