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...employee who suffers from asbestosis. "A lot of the ones I know already have. They're trying to worm out of having to pay." Said Robert Sweeney, a Cleveland attorney who represents 268 claimants in asbestos-related suits: "It's an outrageous abuse of the judicial process. Chapter 11 is not intended for corporations with $2.2 billion in sales that are operating in the black." Vowed Ronald L. Motley, a Barnwell, S.C., attorney whose firm represents more than 3,000 claimants: "We're going to fight them tooth and nail in bankruptcy court...
There have been signs that some fac tions in Solidarity have reluctantly begun to take to heart the government's tough talk. A bulletin issued this month by the leadership of an underground Solidarity chapter at the Lenin shipyard at Gdansk called for calm and restraint so that the government would have time to honor its commitment to continue reform. Economic hardships have clearly blunted the enthusiasm of many supporters for a confrontation with the regime...
...Gablers objected to a paragraph listing beneficial qualities of drugs like insulin for diabetes on the grounds that such information "is instilling in student minds that the term drugs refers to a beneficial product." In a junior high health text by Ginn & Co., the Gablers took exception to a chapter titled "When Things go Wrong." Their demand: a positive chapter called "When Things Go Right...
...health text, the Gablers objected to a class discussion assignment on the concept of "worry." "It has no place being studied in the classroom," wrote the Gablers. The American Way rebuttal: "This objection is a dogmatic statement with no basis in education theory." The Gablers disapproved of an entire chapter of an eighth-grade civics book published by Scott, Foresman & Co. because of "an unnecessarily large amount of pictures of people protesting." The Gablers argue that "this is not an attitude most parents would want their children taught in school." Counters PFAW: "The United States was founded on protests...
...best observation on the opera's difficulties comes from none other than Melville. The heading of Chapter 40 of The Confidence-Man reads, "In which the story of China Aster is at second-hand told by one who, while not disapproving the moral, disclaims the spirit of the style." The grimly humorous spirit of Melville is missing from the opera, with nothing substantive to replace...