Word: alongism
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...workers. Twenty years ago, 60% to 70% of companies paid health-insurance costs in full, says Jim Edholm, president of Business Benefits Insurance Inc., a benefits-consulting firm based in Andover, Mass. Today costs are fully covered by less than 10% of companies. Having already passed those bills along to staff, employers are looking for other benefits to slash...
...Noble of the British AIDS charity Avert says recent setbacks for research into an AIDS vaccine, along with multiple false hopes in the search for a cure, have caused many in the HIV activism community to view Huetter's experiment warily. For many AIDS activists, bone-marrow transplantation is a loaded procedure that evokes a traumatic past: before antivirals were widely introduced in the 1990s, it was one of the aggressive and often fatal procedures doctors tried in their desperate effort to halt the epidemic; some of these transplants even used marrow harvested from baboons...
...labor unrest that Beijing fears could spread and turn into protests against the ruling Communist Party. Despite its domestic agenda, the stimulus package has been warmly welcomed overseas, too. The day after it was revealed, share prices from Hong Kong to London surged. And by again taking action along with the rest of the world (Beijing had previously cut its interest rates in tandem with central banks in other capitals), China is reinforcing its stated willingness to step up and help rebuild the global financial system...
...California's drill, too, originally was scheduled as an exercise for only emergency officials. That exercise, called Golden Guardian, will involve about 5,000 officials, from the local police to the U.S. military, all pretending they are responding to a major quake along the San Andreas Fault...
...found to be guilty of insider trading in 2006. Not long after, his wife and three aides were indicted for embezzlement, forgery and perjury in the mishandling of $450,000 from a secret expense fund. Chen was also named a suspect in the case, which is now being investigated along with the money laundering allegations...