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...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...
...Washington, which could be a corker. In the Oval Office last week for an interview with TIME, he looked healthier and more vigorous than recent press accounts have portrayed him. Yet he has been burned and battered by events and people, and his caution was like armor -- a shield that every modern President adopts eventually, no matter what vows he makes about open communion to the end. "There's always a target painted on the Chief Executive's door," he says...
...California court yesterday decided to allow Stanford University to continue a motion that would shield the school from potential NCAA penalties, a reporter for The Stanford Daily said...
...equal-protection clause to strike down gender discrimination, thereby rendering the ERA somewhat redundant. Moreover, like the 14th Amendment, the ERA would apply only to government action. For instance, while it would offer protection to female government workers at the federal, state and local levels, it would not shield women from abuses by private employers...
...constitutional cloak. In that year, ruling on Roberto Rossellini's parable of a peasant woman (Anna Magnani) impregnated by a bearded stranger (Federico Fellini) whom she believes to be St. Joseph, the Supreme Court ruled that films were a form of expression deserving of the First Amendment shield...