Word: waites
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recent study, by Massachusetts Actuaries Michael Cowell and Walter Hoskins, predicts that by the year 2000, AIDS-related deaths could cost life insurance companies up to $50 billion. Asks William Carroll, executive director of the Life Insurance Association of Massachusetts, an industry group: "Are we supposed to sit and wait for this flood of claims...
...your head; blow up balloons, twist them into animal shapes and announce the resulting sculpture as "venereal disease!"; tap-dance maniacally when seized with an attack of "Happy Feet"; then build a movie career running variations on a character you might call the suburban jerk. And mainly this: wait bravely for years until your public gets the comic point...
...Tandy Chairman John Roach, the unveiling was also an opportunity to let loose a not so subtle shot at the industry's Goliath. When someone in the audience asked about IBM's next move, Roach jumped to his feet, grabbed a microphone and drawled, "I can hardly wait...
...since April. United Airlines has ordered 40,000 of them for use in reservation centers. The Travelers insurance company plans to buy 2,000 this year, and more in 1988. Says Travelers Senior Vice President Joseph Brophy: "We have a lot of sophisticated, computer-hungry workers who can't wait." Some customers are holding back, though, because a more advanced version will be available next year. Meanwhile, competitors will scurry to develop models that will be fully compatible...
...recruiting volunteers to staff hot lines, there is almost no support for AIDS sufferers who are addicts. A 34-year-old black homosexual in Manhattan says he was able to "plug into" gay support groups "for emotional and physical help." But in Harlem, he laments, afflicted addicts "just wait for death, which often comes on the street because so many of them are homeless...