Word: rand
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...respondents favored total withdrawal. Even worse, Najib has failed to gain significant support despite launching a "national reconciliation" effort in which the burly leader disavowed Communism and offered bribes to win supporters. The war, meanwhile, is going disastrously for the Soviets. Says Alex Alexiev, a senior analyst at the Rand Corp. "They are at their wits...
...Jeane Kirkpatrick has been a dominant force in American foreign policy," Kemp said in a statement issued by his spokesman John Rand. "She will continue to be a dominant force despite her decision not to run for president. I will continue to count on her guidance and advice on foreign and defense policy...
...incidence of AIDS cases increases, however, so will the payouts. Between now and 1991, if the number of AIDS victims grows to a projected 400,000, the cost of their treatment will total more than $37 billion, estimates the California-based Rand Corp., a private research institute. Much of that money will come from public health programs like Medicare and Medicaid, and from the pockets of the victims themselves. But $10 billion or so could be paid out by private insurance firms. A recent study, by Massachusetts Actuaries Michael Cowell and Walter Hoskins, predicts that by the year 2000, AIDS...
...fact, racist. Michael Teitelbaum, who has taught demography at Princeton and Oxford, points out that "since the onset of mortality declines two centuries ago, there have been no shortages of humans, only perceived shortages of particular kinds of humans." And Peter Morrison, population research director for the Rand Corp., asserts that probirth programs for the largely white Western middle class "label a group as being inferior or superior. It's what prejudice is all about...
...plane's sole-source contractor, Northrop Corp., has taken a $124 million tax write-off against profits on the plane, signifying concern with the soaring development costs. Last week the Air Force called in officials from the Rand, Northrop and Rockwell corporations to explore the possibilities of subcontracting bigger chunks of the project...