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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...uncertainty, a number of corporations, including Pacific Bell and Cigna insurance company, are now allowing AIDS sufferers to stay on the job as long as their failing health permits. Three years ago, when two BankAmerica employees in San Francisco flatly refused to work with an AIDS victim, the company let the objectors resign and kept the disease victim in | his post. Says Nancy L. Merritt, a BankAmerica vice president: "We recognize the therapeutic value of employees being allowed to work as long as they can." At the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss, the blue jeans manufacturer, an AIDS victim...
...promote the company's name. "He looked at me and said, 'Work it out for next year.' Just like that." Holding read up on how Pavlov had trained his dogs and then set up a makeshift starting gate, put a food pan at the finish line, rang a bell and chased the pigs to the pan. "I did this 20 to 25 times, three times a day," he says. "After four days, the pigs had figured out the game, and I'd lost five pounds...
...outcome of the telephone balloting only when their regular long-distance service is suddenly reassigned to a different supplier on the basis of the voting outcome in their designated area. Dozens of such reassignment possibilities now exist across the U.S. as a result of the 1984 breakup of the Bell System. The main focus of the telephone balloting battle, though, was on AT&T (1985 long-distance revenues: $17.3 billion) and its two remaining major national rivals, upstarts MCI ($2.5 billion) and US Sprint ($1.4 billion). Last week experts projected that AT&T would claim 80% of the final vote...
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...Army, which has the worst procurement bureaucracy of all the services, still seems to design weapons by committee, with every bell and whistle thrown into the conglomeration. Says Defense Consultant Steven Canby: "The Army simply doesn't have the people who know something about technology. They put some infantry officer in charge of this program, when they need a technology expert...