Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spokesman declined to release the name of the victim or comment on further details of the attack. He also declined to elaborate on the woman's physical condition...
...woman was a resident of an apartment complex on Chauncy St., near the Harvard Police Dept., according to several tenants of the complex. They said it appeared as though the woman had been cut with pieces of broken glass following a dispute with her boyfriend...
...coherence, with scenes that are dramatically stillborn. But Irons is splendid in both roles, and Cronenberg can create tour-de-force tableaux with his effortless black magic. In one, Bev strides into surgery dressed in red, like a demon priest at a sacrificial rite. The victim is woman; her crime is woman's unique advantage over man, the power to produce perfect new bodies from the most vulnerable part of her own. Any mad scientist, any man, can try either to serve that power or to destroy it. And Bev must finally love the two things he kills: a woman...
Executives at the Monsanto chemical company must have watched the stock-market opening last week with unusual trepidation. For good reason: after the market closed the previous Friday, a federal court jury in St. Paul awarded $8.75 million to a woman hurt by a Copper-7 intrauterine contraceptive device manufactured by G.D. Searle, a Monsanto subsidiary. The penalty raised a question: Could Monsanto go the way of A.H. Robins, which was forced into bankruptcy proceedings because of lawsuits generated by its Dalkon Shield...
...filed a class-action suit on their behalf this month in a California state court, accusing Saks of illegal discrimination. The women ask for an injunction that would force the store to charge equally for alterations. The suit also seeks damages of at least $250 for every California woman who has been hurt by Saks' alleged bias during the past three years. Saks, which plans to fight the suit, says it sets alteration charges based solely on the work involved...