Word: protectedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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In recent years many companies have protected their top executives with golden parachutes -- those infamously generous severance packages, sometimes running to millions of dollars, guaranteed in a hostile takeover. Now, more and more firms are offering similar, if more modest, payoffs to their rank and file who might lose their...
The AIDS epidemic is fast moving toward the top of the New Right's agenda of pressing social issues. Fierce opposition to condom advertising and "safe sex" instruction in schools is only the first line of battle. The crusaders have also declared war on public health officials for not adopting...
In addition, the medium-range missiles are visible evidence of the U.S. nuclear guarantee, and some experts fear that their withdrawal could leave Europe less well protected. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger warns that if the missiles are taken out, "the American capacity to retaliate from Europe will be...
The 7-to-2 decision involved the case of Gene Arline, who in 1979 was dismissed as a third-grade teacher after she suffered her third flare-up of tuberculosis symptoms in two years. The school board in Nassau County, Fla., said it feared she could spread the disease. Bitter...
Because the defective site is on the X chromosome, females (who are born with two Xs, one inherited from each parent) are less often affected by the syndrome; their normal X chromosome can mask the effects of the faulty one. But males, who have one X and one Y sex...