Word: essex
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Social Security to farm subsidies, be "means tested." That idea, even when coupled with a pledge of support for the family farm, did not endear Babbitt to some of Iowa's hard-pressed growers, whose middle-class life-styles depend on government subsidies. Said one, Jon Malloy of Essex: "I'm impressed with his intelligence and his ideas, but I'm not comfortable that he would give us the help we need right...
While more than 2000 alumni and their families frolic at the Essex County Club this week, Harvard will fork over almost $1 million to pay for the major reunion festivities. But with nearly $7 million already donated this year by members of the three major reunion classes, University finance administrators are assured that their investment is paying...
...order for the drugs to work, doctors have to be able to determine who has AIDS as soon as possible. "It's like the early detection of cancer. If we were to use the drugs at the very earliest stages of the disease, the chances of success are greater," Essex says...
...these diagnostic tests will be in use quite soon, according to Essex. "We already have some tools to categorize whether people are likely to be sick. It's a question of polishing. Within a year we'll have them tested and polished," he says...
...Essex's lab is also working to develop a more sensitive AIDS screening test. The test currently in use screens the blood for antibodies to the AIDS virus. That procedure presents certain difficulties; there is a lag time "between infection and the presence of antibodies of two to three months, but the individual still has the virus," Essex says. "We need to look for earlier markers...