71.   Key dates in breast implants.

72.   Kessler asserts that for too long the FDA had a hands-off policy toward breast implants and medical devices in general.

73.   Lawyers for the women maintain that Dow Chemical bears some liability for breast implants because it performed early testing on silicone.

74.   Leonard Parkins, who represents the interests of women with breast implants in the bankruptcy, said he did not object to the Carnes family receiving payment.

75.   Lawyers representing women who have silicone breast implants have expressed outrage at the ad, which, they contend, was a blatant attempt at jury tampering.

76.   Like many other women with leaking breast implants, Herzog was diagnosed with a nonspecific auto-immune disease.

77.   Lawyers for Dow Corning Corp. walked into a bankruptcy court last Monday seeking shelter from hundreds of thousands of injury claims filed by women who received silicone breast implants.

78.   Magnuson contrasted DuPont to Dow Corning, based on a California judgment against Dow last November involving breast implants.

79.   Many of the lawyers bringing suits against Microsoft have experience in taking on the tobacco, breast implant and vitaman supplement industries.

80.   Meantime, the number of breast implants sold worldwide fell by half following the first reports of injuries.