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...were rare. Today remarkable numbers of cars--expensive cars, serious cars--are black. Nearly one in five new Porsches sold in the U.S. is black, as is one in five GM Corvettes, a 100% increase over the past several years. Less than 7% of the new cars that Chrysler Corp. manufactures are black. All the more remarkable then that it is now the most popular color for the company's high-performance sports cars: among those sold this year, 32% of Laser XEs and Daytona Turbo Zs are black...
Being good brings goodies at a growing number of companies that push and even pay employees to get healthier. At Intermatic Inc., a manufacturing company in Spring Grove, Ill., employees who have stayed off cigarettes a year win a trip for two to Las Vegas. The Hospital Corp. of America in Nashville pays participating staff members 24¢ for each mile run or walked, each quarter-mile swum or four miles bicycled. At Scherer Brothers Lumber Co., boasts Vice President Gregory Scherer, "We have no sick pay, we have well pay." For each month that a worker is neither late...
...advantages, though it also raises some concerns. Dr. John Farquhar, director of Stanford Medical Center's research in disease prevention program, notes that "one of the pitfalls is people not seeking medical attention when they should." Acknowledges Frank Morgan, vice president for a pioneering health promotion plan at Berol Corp. in Danbury, Conn.: "We certainly don't want employees doing stupid things like not seeing a doctor just to get a TV or microwave oven." But, he adds, there is no evidence that this has happened. The incentive chase may also induce some stress of its own. At Scherer...
...most direct route to savings is encouraging workers to buy health services more wisely. "People don't need half or more of all care," claims California Blue Shield Senior Vice President Larry Parcell. "Doctors still see people for head colds." Under the Berol Corp. plan, a worker is credited with an extra $500 a year, which is then reduced by the amount paid out by the insurance company for each claim; the employee gets to keep whatever is left. The company is saving $125,000 a year in reduced medical-coverage premiums. At King Broadcasting in Seattle, where workers...
DIED. William Pereira, 76, master architect and planner who designed the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco's Transamerica Corp. pyramid and the city of Irvine in Orange County, Calif.; of heart disease; in Los Angeles. Pereira, who tried to encourage style and balance in sprawling Southern California, once said, "We have come to accept with enthusiasm the unprofessional, unappreciative, unskillful butchery of the land that goes under the name of planning...