Word: jerseyed
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...while, the new league looked like a fair bet. Franchises were a bargain: $2 million to $5 million a city, vs. $70 million in the N.F.L. True, blue-chip players did not come cheap. Trump, the owner of the New Jersey Generals, paid $5 million for Georgia Running Back Herschel Walker and $8 million for Boston College Quarterback Doug Flutie. Still, much of the money could be written off against profits from the owner's other investments. Besides, a bidding war served to run up the other league's costs while siphoning off talent...
...when the Food and Drug Administration announced that it had approved commercial production of a new vaccine against hepatitis B, a virus that causes an incurable and sometimes fatal liver disease and strikes an estimated 200,000 new victims every year in the U.S. Developed by Merck, the New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant, in partnership with Chiron, a small (1985 sales: $6 million) biotech firm in Emeryville, Calif., the product is the first genetically engineered vaccine approved for human use. "We're delighted that FDA has expressed such a positive view about the usefulness of recombinant technology for vaccines," said...
While looking into the causes of the spread of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome), New Jersey health experts discovered a deadly correlation. Nearly 60% of New Jersey's AIDS cases were drug related, a greater percentage than in any other state. While 53% of the 1,385 AIDS victims identified were drug users, an additional 7% were children or sexual partners of drug addicts. Studies indicate that more than half the drug users in northern New Jersey have been exposed to the virus, so anyone sharing a needle even once has a better than 50% chance of being exposed as well...
Trying out the idea in New Jersey occurred to Dr. John Rutledge, deputy commissioner of the state department of health, after a visit to Amsterdam, where such a program exists. A needle-exchange program would necessarily have to start small. Only about 15% of the state's estimated 60,000 addicts are in registered treatment programs or in touch with public-health street workers, who periodically enter "shooting galleries" to warn users of the dangers of AIDS. An initial research study would be inexpensive, said Rutledge, and could be paid for out of the state health department's existing budget...
Since monitoring provides an exact measure of a worker's productivity, several companies have combined the technology with pay-for-performance programs. At Automatic Data Processing, a New Jersey computer-services giant, data-entry typists who work efficiently can boost their salaries by as much as 40%. An employee typing 18,000 keystrokes an hour -- or five per second -- earns...