Word: concerns
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...midst of an all-out campaign to promote condoms. By this week 66 million newspapers and magazines will have carried a drawing of a man and woman with the tag line "Trust is good; condoms are better." The Bonn government is planning explicit TV ads as well. A prudish concern about offending conservative sensibilities, says Dr. Hartmut Meyer of the federal Health Ministry, is now "too dangerous...
Nordstrom was founded in Seattle in 1901 as a retail shoe store by a Swedish prospector, John Nordstrom, who had struck it rich in the Klondike. Now a publicly traded concern, the firm is still closely controlled by members of the founder's family and propelled by their hands-on style. Says Edward Weller, a senior analyst in the San Francisco office of the Montgomery Securities investment firm: "Nordstrom's movitates people, not just by paying them well but by congratulating them and encouraging them...
Indeed, an ethical concern prompted researchers last year to cut short clinical experiments on PCP patients. In six months only one of 145 AIDS patients given AZT died; many of the others grew stronger and regained some sense of well-being. (Since then, eight more have died.) In a like-size control group given only medically inactive substances, or placebos, 16 perished. These dramatic results prompted Burroughs Wellcome, the North Carolina firm that developed the drug, to call off the trial and immediately begin giving AZT to all the test patients. Many doctors hailed the decision, including Charles Schable, chief...
...Concern over AIDS leads TV and print media to change policy on condom ads. -- Outside the U. S., commercials can be very explicit...
...eight years." With an eye on the horrendous U.S. trade deficit, however, Commerce Department officials are openly sympathetic to the study's criticism. Says Paul Freedenberg, an assistant Commerce Secretary: "We can cut the list. We can be more responsive." The debate is likely to become sharper as concern over the trade balance continues to grow in the months ahead...