Word: treating
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...Emir hoped to establish a nonthreatening channel for complaints. He has not been disappointed. Within days of the council's convocation, its members began receiving letters from citizens urging that it probe specific areas. The opposition may pine for the old parliament, but the populace appears content to treat the council as a legitimate avenue of expression (especially since it is as eager as the Emir to restore the old order, and so is considering a plan that would give $70,000 to every Kuwaiti family -- a $10 billion outlay the Central Bank's governor Salem labels "totally insane...
...their part, some Hispanics complain that blacks are unwilling to treat them as equals in the fight for equal rights. "We sometimes have assumed that because blacks have fought civil rights battles, they are more sensitive to our struggle," says Raul Yzaguirre, president of the National Council of La Raza, a federation of 140 Hispanic organizations. "That's not always the case. Blacks say to us, 'You're whiter than us. You're immigrants, and we've seen people like you get ahead of us. So we're going to be very suspicious of you." The major points of contention...
...facilities cater to both sexes, and for rushed executives or work-out enthusiasts, they help unknot kinks and ease tensions. Corporations are joining the trend by rewarding employees with day- spa gift certificates; rather than woo clients over lunch at a chic restaurant, many businesswomen now treat them to a short stint at a day spa, where a la carte treatments replace the lengthy regimens at full-time facilities...
...furor began when L'Evenement du Jeudi, a weekly magazine, published the confidential minutes of a 1985 CNTS meeting during which agency officials concluded that 100% of the concentrated blood-clotting factors used to treat French hemophiliacs were contaminated with the AIDS virus (HIV). The agency, which has a monopoly on blood for transfusions, not only kept its suspicions secret, but it had also ignored a 1984 recommendation from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control that blood products be heated in order to kill the deadly virus...
...July 1985 the CNTS finally decided to heat treat all blood products and to institute national testing of donated blood. But for the next three months, the agency continued to sell the tainted stock to hemophiliacs without warning them of the risk. That policy, which was approved by the Ministry of Health and the French Association of Hemophiliacs, was reportedly intended to ward off a blood shortage. But critics allege that the CNTS was trying to avoid the cost of purchasing heat-treated blood from foreign labs. National pride may have also played a role: with a bitter rivalry raging...