Word: spreading
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...deadly swath being cut by acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, is fast becoming a quandary for U.S. corporate management as well as a challenge for the U.S. health system. As the disease continues to spread, the emergence of the AIDS victim in the workplace poses one of the country's most difficult tests of employer compassion and good judgment -- and increasingly, of legal acumen. Many managers have reacted by firing AIDS sufferers outright or banning the employee from work on permanent sick leave. But now, at least partly because a thicket of lawsuits has sprung up around cases...
...poses for the business community are already substantial, and growing. Some 23,700 Americans have contracted the disease, and an estimated 20% to 30% of the 1.5 million U.S. citizens who have so far been exposed to the AIDS virus are expected to join them. Even though AIDS is spread almost always through intimate sexual relations or the sharing of hypodermic needles, many workers have strong objections to working in close quarters with carriers of the disease. Says Dana Ferrell, a director of the South Florida Health Action Coalition: "There's still a tremendous amount of ignorance out there...
...most quickly in larger U.S. cities, where familiarity with the disease is highest. But before long, the grim likelihood is that businesses in all parts of the country will have to learn to deal with AIDS. New corporate attitudes about what to do with afflicted workers are likely to spread roughly at the same rate as the disease itself...
...cents a call. The subsidized price of a large loaf of bread is about 2 cents. But for the majority of Egyptians, whose per capita income is $600 a year, subsidies are just enough to keep them from penury. Last February national security police rioted after the rumor spread that their hitch would be extended from three years to four. Reason: the conscripts earn less than $10 a month, on which many of them must support families. In 1977, when former President Anwar Sadat tried to cut food subsidies, widespread rioting almost brought down his government. "We learned from...
...police stun gun, a weapon more commonly employed to subdue emotionally disturbed suspects. He says that lives have also been saved by tapping power from the outboard motor of a canoe. Though snakebite experts say Guderian's treatment defies explanation, as word of his shocking cure has spread, pilots, missionaries and mining-company employees have begun carrying stun guns into the jungle...