Word: majored
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...same stressful time, Detroit's automakers will be going through a major changing of the guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback, said he will turn over the posts of chairman and CEO on March 1 to Harold Poling, 64, a vice chairman...
...attempt to clarify the murky statistics, the Census Bureau is making a major change in family categories when its decennial count begins in April. For the first time, couples living together will have the option to designate themselves "unmarried partners." The bureau has not yet said whether it will get explicit about the precise sexual and emotional relationship that distinguishes "unmarried partners" from another category in the survey, "housemates-roomma tes." (Those who have to ask can perhaps be assumed to be merely roommates...
...only cities that currently offer health benefits to the domestic partners of employees are three in California: Berkeley, Santa Cruz and West Hollywood. State governments, which have the real authority to legislate family and marriage laws, have so far shied away from the issue. But across the country, major efforts are under way to change the laws...
...large problem facing the domestic-partnership movement is a practical one: major U.S. insurance companies have thus far refused to offer group plans that include coverage for unmarried partners, partly because of the unspoken fear that the pool would include a higher proportion of gay males at risk for AIDS. In West Hollywood when the city decided to provide health coverage to its employees' domestic partners, no insurance company would underwrite the business. The city had to resort to self-insurance. So far that has resulted in a drop in costs, but it has not yet encouraged leading insurance companies...
...other major objection is a moral one. Social conservatives object to policies they see as sanctifying homosexuality and further threatening the traditional family. John R. Quinn, the Archbishop of San Francisco, was in the forefront of the fight against the proposal on that city's ballot last week to provide certain domestic-partnershi p rights to municipal workers. He called the idea a "serious blow to our society's historic commitment to supporting marriage and family life...