Sackler
Proper noun
Meaning
Sackler (plural Sacklers)
A surname.
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Jaws Dialogues A few years after the release of Jaws, co-writer Howard Sackler proposed making a prequel film based on the sinking of Indianapolis.
In more recent years, top executives of Purdue Pharmaceuticals, along with the members of the Sackler family who own it, knew the dangers of OxyContin but did nothing.
The move comes just a month after Tufts took the widely noted step of purging the Sackler name from all the buildings and programs dedicated to the family.
Arthur Sackler once wrote that “all health problems devolve upon the individual,” and it was Purdue’s position that OxyContin overdoses were a matter of individual responsibility, rather than the drug’s addictive properties.
Fascinated by its antiquity, Mr. Sackler would later call it the most important item in his collection.
In any case, it should be a straightforward matter to produce a paper trail showing that the papyrus was excavated in 1904/5 and has been held by the Sackler Library at Oxford since then.