Word: shields
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Officials at G.D. Searle must have watched with concern three years ago when a raft of lawsuits forced bankruptcy on A.H. Robins, maker of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth-control device. With good reason: from 1974 to 1986 Searle sold in the U.S. the Copper-7, an IUD that, like the Dalkon Shield, has been suspected of causing serious illnesses or injuries in some users...
BECAUSE in recent years the council has sought to avoid involvement in controversial political issues, limiting the meeting to council members has the effect of stifling undergraduate criticism of the Corporation and its policies. In its apolitical form, the council merely acts as a shield for the Corporation, keeping controversial issues out of the agenda and relegating them to student protests...
Among those amendments passing was a provision by Voke striking language in the bill that some feared would eliminate a state ban on allowing doctors to bill Blue Shield patients for more than the insurer allowed...
Spotting a promising new line of business, hospital corporations opened so- called satellite clinics, many in residential areas. The neighborhood centers found a clientele among workers who were impressed by the convenience and availability of treatment. Says Bernard Tresnowski, president of Blue Cross and Blue Shield: "The incentives for outpatient treatment were so strong that people took advantage of them...
...miles northeast of the ski resort of Alta, the Singer clan nursed its cheerless fantasies. Founded by John Singer, an American-born TV repairman who spent his formative years in Nazi Germany, the family first ran afoul of the law when Singer pulled his children from school to shield them from the influence of drugs and racial integration. His continued defiance led in 1979 to a siege that ended when police rushed Singer while he was on a trip to his mailbox. He was shot in the back after pulling a pistol...