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...American workers in companies with more than 100 employees. In the early 1970s, the Kemper Group of Long Grove, Ill., was the first national insurance company to include coverage for alcoholism in all its group policies. The firm's hunch: the bill for helping an alcoholic quit today would be cheaper than nursing him through afflictions like cirrhosis of the liver and strokes later in life. The logic of acting sooner rather than later has since spread throughout corporate America. Some 10,000 firms and public agencies, including 70% of the FORTUNE $ 500 companies, now have employee-assistance programs...
...alcoholics, the only way to stop the havoc alcohol causes is, of course, to quit drinking. That is easier said than done. The main barrier to ending the torment is the alcoholic's characteristic, and usually adamant, denial that any problem exists. Mary, 61, who has not taken a drink for 14 years, remembers blacking out and waking up with her hands trembling so badly that she could not hold a cup of coffee. "I had reasons for all those things happening to me," she says, "and none of them had to do with my drinking...
...turned the corner. We're playing with intensity, enthusiasm and hardness. They've matured and grown and didn't quit," he said...
...faculty of arts and sciences: "My department chairmen are aware that they had better never miss an opportunity to bring on a highly qualified minority or woman." Black Historian David L. Lewis, recruited to Rutgers, was courted by schools in the South, Midwest and East before he quit the University of California at San Diego for a heavy salary, a light teaching load and a budget to travel in Europe and Africa...
...stops just to get Powell to join the NSC as his deputy. In late 1986 Powell had taken command of the Army V Corps in Frankfurt, West Germany, after some five years in the Pentagon as an aide to Carlucci and then Weinberger. He was reluctant to quit his post after only six months. But Carlucci was determined to get his friend back to Washington. When President Reagan, at Carlucci's urging, personally phoned Powell to offer him the NSC job, the general had little choice but to obey his Commander in Chief...