Word: highes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controversy over the high price of AIDS drugs is not limited to AZT, the antiviral medication that can cost patients as much as $550 a month. AIDS activists are assailing the high price of pentamidine, a medication that helps prevent a deadly form of pneumonia among people infected with the AIDS virus. The drug's manufacturer, Lyphomed of Rosemont, Ill., holds the exclusive license for pentamidine (brand name: NebuPent) in the U.S., where the drug retails for $110 to $200 for a month's supply...
Lyphomed defends its pentamidine price by citing high research-and- developmen t costs. The firm announced last June that it would make the drug available free of charge to patients who have no insurance, but the + company is still working out details of the program. Last month the People with AIDS Health Group, based in New York City, began importing small quantities of pentamidine from Britain. Reason: a month's supply of the European version, which is made by the French firm Rhone-Poulenc, costs just...
...Such high jinks are symptomatic of much broader problems that have both caused and accelerated the emasculation of Government. Washington has been at a political impasse since Reagan's first term, when Congress -- Republicans as well as Democrats -- refused to let him gut popular domestic programs to pay for his huge tax cuts. Instead, the Government decided to have it both ways: tax reduction as well as big boosts in defense spending and increasing middle- class entitlements (notably Social Security and farm supports), offset to a small degree by cuts in programs for the poor. The resulting deficit spending...
...enjoy federal largesse, as do oil companies and people earning more than $200,000 (whose income is taxed at a 28% marginal rate, while a working couple with a taxable income of $71,900 pays 33%). Those who gain from such Government generosity vote -- and contribute money -- in disproportionately high numbers and are the heart of the Republican electoral coalition. As long as the middle class has remained relatively unaffected by Washington's retreat, the Republican strategy has paid off handsomely, most recently in Bush's 1988 election and his extraordinary 75% current approval rating in the polls. Making sure...
...this scenario: Deborah Norville, 31, a blond comer at NBC who was brought in to read the news on the top-rated Today show. TV gossips surmised that Norville was being groomed to replace Jane Pauley, 38, as Bryant Gumbel's co-host. Suddenly the Today show became high- tension drama: Is Bryant being nicer to Deborah than to Jane? Did you notice a chill in the air? Cue the organ music...