Word: generality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While there has not yet been a national study of the general prevalence of the virus, no large-scale studies support the Crisis contention. To the contrary. Since 1985 the Department of Defense has tested nearly 4 million military personnel and found a stable .15% rate of infection. About .2% of the 8.8 million blood donors screened each year by the American Red Cross are infected. "AIDS is making some encroachments into the heterosexual community," says Dr. Douglas Dieterich of New York University Medical Center. "But it is grossly exaggerated to claim that it is running rampant...
...always much help to either accountants or taxpayers. A survey by the General Accounting Office last year found that the agency's telephone assisters answered taxpayer queries incorrectly 21% of the time. The IRS was determined to do better this year, since it expects to help 22 million callers on its toll-free phone lines this season, up from 17 million in 1987. The agency, which has invested 2.5 million hours in training its entire staff for tax reform, has increased its ranks of telephone assisters by 1,000, to 4,500. To determine whether correct information is going...
...suggests that Japanese innovations may on average be more significant than those of their American rivals. Moreover, the Japanese are snaring a fast-growing share of all U.S. patents. Last year, for the first time ever, the top three recipients of American patents were Japanese: Canon, Hitachi and Toshiba. General Electric, which had held the No. 1 spot for at least 25 years, until 1986, was in fourth place...
Among individual companies, Japan's Canon, a manufacturer of cameras, printers and copiers, has been outstanding. In the past decade the firm has pushed its annual U.S. patent total from 158 to 887. During the same period, the annual number of patents issued to General Electric fell from...
...rampant in the large, overcrowded cities of central and western Africa. Most AIDS researchers, however, now dismiss the suggestion that Africa might serve as a model for the heterosexual spread of AIDS in the U.S. For one thing, promiscuity and prostitution are common in parts of Africa, and general standards of hygiene and medical care are low. Scientists believe widespread venereal diseases in Africa also contribute to the spread of AIDS by causing genital ulcerations that make it easier for the virus to enter the bloodstream. Finally, Africans suffer from more nonvenereal viral and parasitic diseases than do Americans...