A.C.P.

“Clearly, the trend lines were moving in a direction that wasn’t comforting for anyone,” Birchfield said, in a deposition in a lawsuit between Thayer and A.C.P.’s former owners.

According to the State of Kansas, this month, twenty years after Thayer purchased A.C.P., a permeable barrier will finally be installed to insure that no additional TCE flows from the site into the water supply.

According to testimony from Randy Birchfield, a West Point classmate whom Pompeo recruited to run A.C.P., business had slowed and there were layoffs, cutbacks in bonuses and health-care benefits, and rumors of imminent bankruptcy.

I don’t fault the A.C.P. or its Madison Avenue colleagues who came up with this lusterless campaign; there’s just not a lot of pithy material to work with.

The A.C.P. reviewed studies of the procedure and concluded that pelvic exams are not accurate diagnostic screening tests for ovarian cancer.