Word: accessability
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...employees should be able to hear views about unionization beyond those represented by HUCTW. Many employees have said they want equal access to information about the University's position and about the union's side--because, as one employees put it, "in the end I will do what I want to do." To make an informed choice, support staff should be able to get information from both sides...
...break the embargo), the Journal announced it would drop Reuters from its press mailing list for six months. Reuters, insisting that its aspirin story was based on independent reporting and not the Journal's article, vowed not to adhere to the embargo during its suspension. "When we have access to a copy of the Journal, we'll treat it as we do all other news sources and publish on merit," said Desmond Maberley, executive editor of Reuters in North America. Since other news organizations would probably follow suit to stay competitive, such action could shatter the Journal's control over...
...going to pay for America to grow old? With each advancement in medical technology, the possibility of extending people's lives increases. Who is to decide who should get the organ transplant or have first access to kidney-dialysis machines? The questions have fired a debate about what society owes its elderly, what should constitute a natural life-span and how far doctors should go to keep elderly patients alive. Medical Ethicist Daniel Callahan, 57, suggests that health involves more than preventing death. "We should seek to advance research and health care that increase not the length of life...
...family, and he attended schools (Hotchkiss, Yale) where mixing with the scions of wealth was hard to avoid. After choosing journalism as his life's work, he discovered that financiers, corporate chiefs and politicians were happy to let him trail along in their retinues. Lapham's background and his access to the mighty have given him a privileged perch from which to view the past few decades of U.S. history. He believes he has seen something new, and he is not happy about it: "I think it fair to say that the current ardor of the American faith in money...
...product costs about $125 million to bring from the laboratory to the pharmacy shelf. Although drug patents can last up to 22 years, firms must test a product for several years after a patent filing to win approval from the Food and Drug Administration. That gives competitors, who have access to the filing, time to tinker with a patented compound and make it different enough to qualify as a new drug. Growing, too, are the ranks of generic-drug producers who do little or no research and sell copies of older drugs at deep discounts. Their share...