Word: screens
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...victims of the disease. Laws forbidding insurers to use the AIDS-antibody test -- which reveals only exposure to the AIDS virus and is not a test for the disease -- have been passed by California, Wisconsin and the District of Columbia. Insurers are being accused of attempting to identify and screen out homosexual men, one of the groups at highest risk of contracting the disease, by denying policies on the basis of occupation, marital status and neighborhood. In California, National Gay Rights Advocates has filed a $10 million sex-discrimination suit against Great Republic Life Insurance, charging that the company...
...body. It retains all that was most benevolent in beaux arts grandeur -- the reassurance offered by architecture that the individual is the reason for the state. And every part of it is functional: the detached facade wall of each terrace, for instance, is also a thick screen that carries the ducting needed to circulate 8 million cubic meters of conditioned air an hour...
...realm of genre moviemaking here. But nobody does that with greater conviction, energy and unpatron-izing affection for the grand old forms than Eastwood. He also knows that by grounding his work with a few simple ironies, he can humanize his basic screen character, that of the dutiful loner, and separate it from upstarts like "Sly" Stallone and Chuck Norris. The sergeant's swearing, for example, is well beyond the grunting demands of realism; it is an aria of obscenities and more a commentary on macho posturing than an assertion of it. Same thing with the women's magazines...
...survey also found that most employers consider drug screening an ethical procedure, with 20 percent saying they screen new college graduates for drug use, the Associated Press reported this week...
Actually, if you're giving to a real computerphile, give non-computer gifts. (People like the Happy Hacker already spend too much time in front of the computer screen.) Buy them something social--a gift certificate to Steve's or tickets to a show...