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...safety on the highways, "buckle up" may no longer be sound advice in every situation. When the National Transportation Safety Board began an investigation in 1984 on seat-belt performance, a surprising pattern emerged: backseat passengers who had used lap belts suffered more serious and fatal injuries in head-on collisions than did those with no restraints at all. The NTSB has called on the Department of Transportation to require shoulder harnesses in the backseats of new cars, a regulation that could take effect by the end of the year...
...more difficult problem for many firms is the cost of treating an AIDS victim, which averages about $147,000 during the two years it generally takes for the disease to run its fatal course. For small businesses, one or two AIDS cases could trigger a ruinous hike in health-insurance premiums. To keep costs in the $35,000 range, corporations like RCA have established outpatient-care programs in which AIDS patients spend far less time in the hospital and more on the job or at home...
...before the explosions, Margaret Benson asked a family lawyer to investigate. Steven, the prosecutor argued, feared disinheritance. Experts testified that his handprints were found on receipts for a length of 4-in.-diameter pipe ($36.08, including tax) and two pipe endpieces ($28.05 total) of the kind used in the fatal bombs. Steven's sister, her face bearing ugly burn scars from the bombing, told the court that he left the car just before the blast, ostensibly to get something from the house, and kept his back to her as she screamed for help...
...firm's exploits have grown, so has the criticism. Some investors claim that Kohlberg Kravis leverages its deals too far, loading up the bought- out companies with a debt burden that could be fatal in a recession. Another development that may derail Kohlberg Kravis is the federal tax reform movement, which appears likely to limit some of the write-offs that help make LBOs such lucrative investments. That prospect has already slowed the pace of most Wall Street LBO specialists, with the notable exception of Kohlberg Kravis...
...roughened Plexiglas tablet. The scheduled pauses were decompression stops that allowed the excess dissolved nitrogen to leave their bodies gradually; in a faster ascent, the nitrogen would have come out of solution too rapidly, forming gas bubbles in the tissues or blood vessels, a painful and sometimes fatal consequence known as the "bends...