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...residents in a local nursing home. He knew the home had been pocketing government money the residents were given to ensure good care, and he saw the bedsores as proof that they weren't getting it. He investigated and later sued Geriatric and Medical Companies Inc., which operated the Tucker House nursing home. The nursing-home company settled the case for $600,000, sent condolences to the families of the three residents and--perhaps most important--set off probes by law firms around the country seeking similar evidence of poor care and the resulting fraud. Their plan: to present evidence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NURSING HOMES: FATAL NEGLECT | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

...however, the Atlanta team happened to extract the eggs on the eighth day of the hormone regimen rather than the 10th. When these younger, presumably hardier ova were frozen and thawed, they emerged from the process intact. "It was more a matter of timing than anything else," says Michael Tucker, scientific director...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EGGS ON THE ROCKS | 10/27/1997 | See Source »

Reckless and irresponsible publications that paid for photographs of the princess bear responsibility for Diana's death. By feeding the sharks, they create the frenzy. ELIZABETH DEWEESE TUCKER South Bend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 29, 1997 | 9/29/1997 | See Source »

...company more than $7 million. An Arkansas woman's award of $16.6 million after being shot and paralyzed at a Shakur concert is being appealed. Even Shakur's father is suing for a cut. The prize for the most bizarre suit, however, goes to antirap warrior C. DeLores Tucker, who claims that lewd remarks made about her on Shakur's album All Eyez on Me caused her so much distress that she and her husband have not been able to have sex. She wants $10 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Sep. 22, 1997 | 9/22/1997 | See Source »

...area businesses. They owned woolen mills, cotton factories, 500 local co-ops, 150 stores and 200 miles of railroad. Moreover, when occasionally faced with competition, they insisted that church members patronize LDS-owned businesses. Eventually this became too much for the U.S. Congress. In 1887 it passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act, specifically to smash the Mormons' vertical monopolies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KINGDOM COME | 8/4/1997 | See Source »

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