Word: nonprofits
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kills them. Typically, an AIDS sufferer will die within three years of contracting the malady, but only after incurring hospital bills that can run as high as $30,000 a year. So far, that disaster has impinged only marginally on the balance sheets of the insurance industry: excluding nonprofit groups like Blue Cross and Blue Shield, AIDS-related private- insurance claims last year totaled an estimated $745 million, or 1% of total commercial life insurance and health insurance payouts nationwide...
...simplest and most effective response to coastal erosion would be to prevent people from living at the edge of the sea. The nonprofit, Washington- based Nature Conservancy encourages just that by buying threatened coastal areas and refusing to develop them. The group has made 32 separate purchases in eight states, sheltering more than 250,000 acres, including 13 barrier islands off the coast of Virginia that it bought for $10 million. Says Orrin Pilkey, a Duke University geologist and one of the country's top experts on beach erosion: "Retreat is the ultimate solution. Property owners must pack...
Others sharply disagree. Says Scott Armstrong, executive director of the National Security Archive, a nonprofit research institute: "The independent counsel has taken testimony from accountants and underlings that makes the case look different and the motive more sinister...
...professional day-care center is the fastest-growing option for working parents. There are an estimated 60,000 around the country, about half nonprofit and half operated as businesses. Costs vary widely, from $40 a week to as much as $120. In the best centers, children are cared for by dedicated professionals. At the nonprofit Empire State center in Farmingdale, N.Y., teachers make up lesson plans even for infants. Empire, which receives partial funding from New York State, keeps parents closely informed of their child's development. "If a child takes a first step, develops in the least, that parent...
...universal education by becoming the first state to require towns with 500 or more families to build high schools. Now it is showing the way to universal child care. Aided by a booming economy, the state has worked out a program with employers, school boards, unions and nonprofit groups to encourage the expansion and improvement of child-care facilities. Small companies and groups can receive low-interest loans from the state to build day-care facilities. Funds are earmarked for creating centers in public housing projects. School systems can get financial aid for after- school programs. A statewide referral network...