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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became the first insurer to announce that it would impose an AIDS blood test on anyone who sought an individual life insurance policy. Many rivals, particularly among the 50 major insurance firms, have since begun testing anyone seeking a high-value individual life policy. But those measures are less sweeping than they seem: some 85% of U.S. insurance policies are provided through group plans, which are usually unaffected by the testing dictum. Even where tests have been applied, the results so far have been minor. Transamerica received 168,000 insurance applications between January 1986 and June of this year...
...testing for hospital and medical insurance, while continuing to allow it for life and disability policies. Since last year the District of Columbia has permitted no blood testing at all for AIDS antibodies. In California, insurers are prohibited from testing for antibodies, but companies have skirted the ban with less specific tests that measure the general condition of applicants' immune systems...
...editor-in-chief since 1979, Grunwald brought that same spirit of * disciplined creativity to our six magazines. Always in search of new trends, new perspectives and new ideas, he remained a prose purist who would settle for nothing less than the best-written and best-designed magazine possible...
Some people just cannot seem to take no for an answer. For the third time in less than a year, Ronald Perelman, chairman of the Revlon Group, is reviving his efforts to take over Gillette. Last week Perelman offered $5.4 billion in cash and securities for the Boston-based razor-blade concern. That is nearly $800 million more than his last bid, in June, which the company rejected as inadequate...
...partly explained by the fact that Asian-American students who began their educations abroad arrived in the U.S. with a solid grounding in math but little or no knowledge of English. They are also influenced by the promise of a good job after college. "Asians feel there will be less discrimination in areas like math and science because they will be judged more objectively," says Shirley Hune, an education professor at Hunter College. And, she notes, the return on the investment in education "is more immediate in something like engineering than with a liberal arts degree...