Word: healthly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...expert on tanks. The new armor, containing depleted uranium encased in steel, will not reduce the tank's top speed of 42 m.p.h. The Pentagon says that the uranium, a residue of the weapons' production process, will expose crewmen to only a slight radiation dose that poses no health hazard. The first of 2,499 newly armored tanks is scheduled to clatter off the assembly line in October...
...Government. Within two days the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation advanced $1 billion to keep First RepublicBank's 73-member banks in business. At the same time, Houston's ailing First City Bancorp, the fourth largest banking company in the state, reported that its plan for returning to financial health was in jeopardy. The problems encountered by both companies dramatized once again just how badly the Texas oil and real estate busts have damaged the state's economy and financial system...
...merger may turn out to have been the worst business decision ever made." Worried First RepublicBank's depositors have pulled some $2 billion out of their accounts this year. If First Republic were to fail, it could cost the FDIC $5 billion to restore the bank's financial health. That would make the rescue more expensive than the $4.5 billion bailout of Continental Illinois...
...women under 50 to be of so little benefit that women may not consider the screening worth the trouble. An accompanying editorial took the findings even further. Declared Dr. John Bailar III, a physician and medical statistician at McGill University in Montreal: "The evidence . . . does not demonstrate any clear health benefit from mammographic screening for breast cancer in women younger than 50 years . . . Routine screening of this age group should be discontinued...
...overall price tag would be considerable. Screening even a quarter of the 14 million women in the U.S. between 40 and 49 would cost $350 million. The practical result: few poor women are tested for breast cancer at all; middle-class women, too, balk at the cost, which many health-insurance plans still refuse to reimburse (though four states require insurers to cover at least some routine screenings...