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...elderly patient had no known risk for AIDS when he received a blood transfusion in 1982. The procedure was routine, similar to one undergone each year by up to 4 million Americans -- victims of auto accidents, those recovering from operations, cancer patients and others. But this transfusion contained the seeds of tragedy: unknown to anyone at the time, the blood was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). The next year the patient developed an AIDS-related form of pneumonia, and he died in 1984. His wife tested positive for the AIDS antibodies, and was later...
Dukakis, who planned to take off again today for an afternoon of campaigning in New Hampshire, chaired a cabinet meeting, celebrated Greek Independence Day, denounced auto theft, met with realtors and attacked the paperwork that piled up during his two-day visit to Iowa...
...order are fundamentally unjust, but able to survive, protest and chaos are incapable of enduring. Although The Sunlight Dialogues is set in the 1960s and uses the lingo of that decade, Gardner's book is far closer to the nightmare pessimism of Kafka's The Trial or Canetti's Auto-Da-Fe than to the hippie philosophizing of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance...
...Renault, the results of the deal are mixed. In effect, the company is bowing out of North American auto production, which it entered when it first signed a joint marketing agreement with AMC in 1979. The timing of the retreat is peculiar. AMC is about to introduce a new midsize sedan, the Premier, in October. The car, expected to sell for around $12,000, will still be built at the Canadian plant that Renault has now agreed to sell to Chrysler. This month Renault has begun exporting to the U.S. a new $10,000 compact, the Medallion, which Chrysler would...
...Dart Group's offer to acquire Supermarkets General for $1.6 billion would join two retailers. Dart owns discount auto-parts stores and book outlets, while Supermarkets General specializes in food and drugs. Some analysts suspect that the Haft family, which controls the Dart Group, would be perfectly content to stop short of an actual merger and sell its current shares in Supermarkets General at a profit...