Word: jacks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Jack Geiger, Professor Emeritus of Community Medicine at C.U.N.Y. Medical School and former president of Physicians for Human Rights said lack of coverage is both the cause and result of poor health. He cited poverty and race as contributing factors for the approximately 16 percent of Americans who do not have health insurance...
...Jack Kevorkian finally got what he wanted on Wednesday. A Michigan district judge ordered the infamous Dr. Death to stand trial on charges of first-degree murder for last month's televised euthanasia of Thomas Youk. Kevorkian, who had dared prosecutors to charge him, will have to defend himself on murder, assisted suicide and controlled substance charges for the lethal injection of Youk, which was broadcast on "60 Minutes...
...bounced back nicely," said Jack R. Meyer, president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages the University's endowment. He declined to comment on the extent of the rebound...
...beginning of the 1980s, 45-year-old Jack Welch became CEO of another giant, General Electric. Farsighted, incisive--and controversial--he recognized the threat of competition from Japan and elsewhere and had the intellectual and emotional strength to deal with it. He set the tone for U.S. industry. GE became highly productive by undertaking a complex reorganization that simplified the company into one with dominant positions in its carefully chosen businesses. Welch then remade GE into a boundaryless organization that encouraged, and got, participation from employees at all levels. He extinguished turf wars and the not-invented-here syndrome that...
...business traveler knows, finding an analog phone jack to plug in the modem of a notebook computer can be a chore. That's because most offices and hotels use digital lines that won't transmit the analog signals generated by a modem. ModemMinder ($40; available in January) from Konexx in San Diego is a small device that solves the problem by converting incoming and outgoing signals to the right format so that you can jack in anywhere...