Word: trialing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...doesn?t look good for the drug's makers. The lawyers for Debbie Lovett, 36, sounded like they?d watched a tobacco trial or two in their time. They claimed that Wyeth-Ayerst Laboratories, a subsidiary of American Home Products, knew the dangers of fen-phen?s dangerous half, fenfluramine, long before the FDA yanked it off the market in May 1997 -- and hid their research from an unsuspecting public. Which left the defense spluttering that Ms. Lovett?s obesity carried its own risks; she knew what she was getting into. The jury didn...
...future, the numbers school officials are looking at will be on a different scale--1999 is the last year Massachusetts will give the Iowa reading test. Students will instead take a version of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) test, and third-graders will be given trial MCAS questions next spring before the test is launched...
...situation started with the de-monopolization of the Net?s name game. Network Solutions, the company that hands out those .com and .net web addresses, needed some competition, and this spring, five companies were turned loose in the void on a trial basis. So far, so good. Trouble is, Network Solutions, which is still in charge of the overall system, decided not to extend its own no-dirty-words policy to its five new peers, throwing the doors open to a Carlinized cyberspace that had the Judiciary members up in arms Wednesday. It may have been a nifty business ploy...
...Cherkasky, then the chief of the investigative-units division. "You would be in the elevator with John and have police officers ask him for his autograph." John worked on small cases at first--embezzlement, low-level corruption--before moving on: organized crime and racketeering, and eventually the street-crime trial division. He was an assiduous worker. "He was different, obviously--he lived in a different world that we didn't understand," Cherkasky says. "But his ability to be upbeat and prompt, to never ask for anything special or expect it, was a commentary...
...senescent rocker MICK JAGGER. Jagger's legal tack--that their Hindu wedding on Bali nine years ago was not binding--didn't prevent his ceding to Hall a sum London tabloids put at $15.5 million. The couple, who have four children, reached a settlement the day their divorce trial was to start...