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...employee in 1984, many managers have seen workers die as a result of drug abuse in industrial accidents, train crashes and highway pileups. Says Peter Bensinger, a former chief of the Drug Enforcement Administration who is now a leading consultant on drug abuse: "No one has a civil right to violate the law. Companies do have a right and responsibility to establish sound working conditions...
Without a thorough housecleaning, Babangida's "military democracy" will lead to the type of civil democracy Nigeria has known for almost three decades, one that is filled with abuses, excesses and lack of discipline. Vincent Ude Monrovia, Liberia...
...idea that any citizen should have unrestricted access to the courts for redress of any grievances he might suffer. Robert Habush, president of the Association of Trial Lawyers, says of the tort-reform movement, "In my 25 years in law, this is as serious a threat to the civil justice system as I have ever seen. People have decided there is going to be a hanging, and it is just a question of what tree and what rope...
Americans have always been a litigious people. But there does seem to be a rise in the number and size of liability suits facing every type of company, from soccer-ball makers to cigarette manufacturers. From 1977 to 1981, the number of civil lawsuits in state courts grew four times as fast as the population of the U.S. And in the decade between 1974 and 1984, the number of product-liability suits in federal courts expanded 680%. The first million-dollar verdict did not occur until 1962, but there were 401 in 1984, according to Jury Verdict Research...
...AIDS-screening test, which detects antibodies to the virus in the blood, is already being given to all 2.3 million U.S. service members, and has been used to safeguard the nation's blood supply. Civil libertarians are concerned about the possible misuse of test results to discriminate against homosexuals. Dr. Walter R. Dowdie, the AIDS coordinator for the Public Health Service, emphasized the "crucial need to ensure confidentiality for high-risk persons and to protect their medical records from unauthorized disclosure...