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web page.
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Oct. 11, 2009
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By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK , New York Times
Most of the serious proposals to fulfill President
Obama’s vow to curb health care costs have fallen victim to organized
interests and parochial politics.
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Prediction based on projected tax collections
Tallahassee Bureau Chief , Daytona Beach News-Journal
TALLAHASSEE -- The pain is about to begin again in the state Capitol.
Just months after patching together a budget by cutting spending,
raising fees and gobbling up federal money, Florida lawmakers are bracing
for more tough times next year.
Florida could face a budget shortfall of as much as $2.6 billion for
the 2010-11 fiscal year that starts in July, as state tax collections
continue sagging and costs increase for programs such as Medicaid.
That means lawmakers will have to spend the spring legislative session
scraping together money and debating cuts that could hit a wide range of
programs.
A large part of the problem stems from the state's troubled economy,
which has dragged down tax revenues. Economist Amy Baker told lawmakers
last week that Florida likely will remain in a recession until spring
2010 and then recover slowly.
"We're going to come out of this," said Rep. Dorothy Hukill, R-Port
Orange. "It's just going to be very, very difficult." ...
more at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJ
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.....It’s a shame that this profit-making dash by private equity firms
runs parallel to the subprime mortgage crisis that has rocked the global
economy. Atul M. Karnik
Woodside, Queens, Oct. 5, 2009
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
....All the complex financial maneuvering aside, it comes down to huge
profit-taking that destroys equity in the form of good jobs, stable
communities and trusted brands.
It’s time to recognize the extreme shortsightedness of these business
strategies and demand approaches that value jobs and shared prosperity,
which are fundamental to long-term economic health.
Anne Ladky
Chicago, Oct. 5, 2009
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
To the Editor:
The erosion of capitalism in our country is not due to the socialists
that the right wing frets so much about, but rather to corporate
predators who convert perfectly healthy companies into their own piggy
banks.
The bedrock principle of capitalism, that a free-market economy
produces a satisfactory outcome for both buyers and sellers, has been
cynically distorted by the unrestrained greed of buyout firms.
Dan Greenburg
Merrick, N.Y., Oct.
$ $ $ $ $ $ $
Evidently in Mr. Eitel’s favored corporate philosophy, the Great Game
of Life, the hard-working family men and women who take pride in their
craft and play by the rules will never be other than pawns on the
chessboard.
Sharon Williams
Redwood City, Calif., Oct. 5, 2009
---- The complete letters to the
editor
of the New York times at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/
opinion/l11simmons.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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Staff
Writer , Daytona Beach News-Journal
Apartment
vacancy rates reaching into double digits during the past year have
owners and managers trying a variety of ways to attract and keep tenants.
Sign spinners advertising move-in specials or free cable are common
sights on street corners at apartments scattered across Volusia and
Flagler counties. One 20-year-old Port Orange complex even built a new
clubhouse and is refurbishing all its apartments and town houses as
tenants move out to be competitive.
"The market is real soft right now. There are a lot of homes to rent
and condo conversions because owners cannot sell them," said Steve Unatin
of Nova Properties Management, which manages Victoria Gardens Apartments
and Townhomes. "We rent to a lot of Palmer (College of Chiropractic)
students, and the young people expect more amenities and that is what we
are trying to give them with this new clubhouse."
The clubhouse sits on a formerly wooded lot in the center of the town
houses off Victoria Boulevard, near busy Dunlawton Avenue. It features a
fitness room with free weights and treadmills; a children's playroom; a
laundry room; small conference/business room; and a plush ....
more at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOn
line/Business/Headlines/bizBIZ01101109.htm
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The Public Editor
By CLARK HOYT
The Times is pandering to liberals/conservatives (pick
one) on Acorn.
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Posted
Sept. 27, 2009
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U.S. Job Seekers Exceed Openings by Record Ratio
By PETER S. GOODMAN
Unemployed Americans now confront a job market that is
bleaker than ever in the current recession, and employment
prospects are still getting worse.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/27/b
usiness/economy/27jobs.html?th&emc=th
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Editorial
The Rights of Corporations
New York Times
...Now the court is considering what should be a fairly narrow
campaign finance case, involving whether Citizens United, a nonprofit
corporation, had the right to air a slashing movie about Hillary Rodham
Clinton during the Democratic primary season. There is a real danger that
the case will expand corporations’ rights in ways that would undermine
the election system.
The legal doctrine underlying this debate is known as “corporate
personhood.”
The courts have long treated corporations as persons in limited ways
for some legal purposes. They may own property and have limited rights to
free speech. They can sue and be sued. They have the right to enter into
contracts and advertise their products. But corporations cannot and
should not be allowed to vote, run for office or bear arms. Since 1907,
Congress has banned them from contributing to federal political campaigns
— a ban the Supreme Court has repeatedly upheld.
In an exchange this month with Chief Justice Roberts, the solicitor
general, Elena Kagan, argued against expanding that narrowly defined
personhood. “Few of us are only our economic interests,” she said. “We
have beliefs. We have convictions.” Corporations, “engage the political
process in an entirely different way, and this is what makes them so much
more damaging,” she said. ...
more at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/2
2/opinion/22tue1.html?_r=1&ref=opinion
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Posted
Sept. 26, 2009
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Halifax
Health will be getting 16.5 percent less in property taxes next year
after its board of commissioners Friday night bowed to the community's
cries of financial distress and approved a hospital tax rate that's the
same as this year's: $2.25 per $1,000 of assessed value.
The move pleased opponents of the hospital tax.
"We're always happy to see some reason injected into this," said Ed
Connor, an Ormond Beach resident.
The board's vote was 5-1 after an impassioned two-hour hearing that
had doctors asking the board not to cut revenues of the area's largest
hospital. Because of disappearing value from the area's taxable property,
levying the same tax rate will produce $6.8 million less in revenues for
the hospital district next year.
Dr. David Billmeier, a Port Orange primary-care physician, said he was
very disappointed with the vote
"We're already on thin ice," Billmeier said. ..
more at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnl
ine/News/EastVolusia/evlEAST10092609.htm
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pays $24,000
for 12 weeks of lawn
cutting
Video segment from Channel 9, TV news,
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Sept. 24, 2009
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Home Sales Falter After 4-Month Gain
By JACK HEALY
Sales of previously owned homes fell unexpectedly last
month, an industry group reported, showing that a budding
recovery in the housing market remains weak.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/25/b
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COMMUNITY VOICE
Daytona Beach News-Journal
....The insurance company gets a medical history from the person and
whether he is a smoker, whether he is a heavy drinker or whether he is a
window washer in tall buildings or works at a desk, et cetera. The
insurer can then "rate" the person and determine, based on that rating,
how much the premium for that person should be.
Similarly, when a health care policy is sold, the insurer often
refuses to sell the policy based on existing medical problems of the
buyer. Sometimes, the policy is issued, excluding the cost flowing from
the existing condition.
Now, the part that few people know or understand. The insurance
departments of every state regulate all the insurance companies in the
state. Having been there, I know how regulated the insurance companies
are. Before they can market a new kind of life or health policy, they
must submit pounds of paper setting forth all the details of the policy
and then the actuarial assumptions used in determining the premium, such
as the mortality or morbidity table used, the interest rate on the
policy, the commission to the agent or agents and the profit margin built
in. These insurance departments of the states have their own actuaries on
staff who are familiar with all the facets of the calculations and the
propriety of each of the assumptions. I can't think of any business that
is as regulated by the states as are insurance companies.
Finally, you must understand that hundreds of insurance companies sell
these policies and they all are competing with each other for the best
features of the policies and the lowest possible cost. Many of the
Democrats in Congress know all about this, but it is convenient and easy
to use the mantra that insurance companies are making such an inordinate
profit that government health care can do it so much better and cheaper.
Don't you believe it.
Moore lives in Ormond Beach.
Read the complete article at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnlin
e/Opinion/Editorials/opnOPN37092509.htm
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Fed Considers Sweeping Rules on Bank Pay
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS and LOUISE STORY
The Federal Reserve's rules, which would reportedly apply
not just to executives, would scrutinize the structure of
compensation in an effort to discourage excessive
risk-taking.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/19/business/economy/19pay.html?th&emc=th
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NOTE: This is the third installment of our series — Meet Your
Insurance Company Executive: An Interview with Wendell Potter.
This week, ThinkProgress spoke with Wendell Potter, a former VP of
communications at health insurance giant CIGNA, about exactly how insurance
companies derail reform and preserve the status quo. Working in public
relations for CIGNA, Potter had a direct role in
multiple campaigns in the past to minimize public outrage at insurance
company abuses, defeat legislation aimed at regulating insurers, and the
massive
effort to discredit Michael Moore and his movie SiCKO. In addition to
enormous
amounts of money spent in direct lobbying and campaign contributions,
Potter spelled out exactly how insurance companies have prepared to defeat
meaningful reform.
Planned well before this year, insurance company CEOs, like Potter’s
former boss at CIGNA (H. Edward Hadway), formed a group called the Strategic
Communications Committee to develop effective messages and strategy for the
industry. Organized through AHIP, the lobbying front for insurance
companies, the committee would work with large public relations companies to
devise a two-pronged, “duplicitous campaign.” Because insurance companies
suffer from low public approval, Potter said, the industry would present
itself as “for reform” to the public, yet at the same time label proponents
of meaningful reform as “extreme.” The public campaign is for the most
part positive, and largely delivered by industry representatives like
AHIP chief lobbyist Karen Ignagni. Potter noted:
It’s really a duplicitous PR campaign. They will talk
about, in broad terms, how supportive they are of health care reform,
but they will be working behind the scenes to kill very, very
crucial parts of reform ...
more at
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/09/17/potter-charm-dirty-campaign/
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Health Care Industry Fat From Secret Costs
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September 14, 2009
Nonprofit Groups Upset at Exclusion
From Health Bills
Nonprofit organizations say they are upset that Congress and the Obama
administration have not addressed their rising health care costs in the
various health care proposals being floated on Capitol Hill. The main
bill in the House would award a tax credit to small businesses that
provide their employees with
health insurance — but nonprofits do not pay income taxes and thus
would not benefit.
“Why should employees of nonprofits be treated worse than employees of
for-profit businesses?” said Jonathan A. Small, government affairs
consultant at the Nonprofit Coordinating
Committee of New York.
Nonprofit groups were hoping that the president would include them in
his speech to Congress on Wednesday, but instead he mentioned only
“families, businesses and government.”
“There was nothing in that much-repeated trilogy of those needing help
that spoke to nonprofits,” said Lester M. Salamon, director of the
Center for Civil Society Studies at
Johns Hopkins University.
Some nonprofit groups have called for a subsidy along the lines of the
Earned Income Tax Credit, in which money would be returned to
organizations that demonstrate they have paid for an employee’s health
care. . . .
more at
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/14/health/policy/14nonprofit.html
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Big Spenders? They Wish
By PETER S. GOODMAN
Even before the recession hit, many lived beyond their
means because incomes have fallen as the costs of
middle-class American life have risen.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/business/economy/13excerpt.html?th&emc=th
Radisson Guests Could Have Personal Info Compromised
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Unemployed Seek Work On Labor Day
The nearly 15 million unemployed Americans won't enjoy Labor Day as a
relaxing
respite from work. Instead, they'll hit the pavement and keep hunting for a
job.
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POI Hank comments: Why shouldn't stock
holders use FPL profits to plan for FPL
development and improvements.
Why is it always the tax payers
who have to finance things for
rich stock holders? Hmmm.... ?
--- hank
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Tallahassee Bureau Chief
Daytona Beach News-Journal
.....But Florida Gas Transmission Co., a pipeline firm that has long
transported natural gas to FPL and other businesses, is fighting the plan
and argues it would be a bad deal for FPL customers.
The pipeline company said the project would force customers to pay
excessive costs and that FPL is trying to "pad its rate base" and benefit
stockholders.
"It's a big deal," said Floyd Self, an attorney for Florida Gas
Transmission. "It's a lot of money."
The Public Service Commission, which regulates FPL and other utilities,
held a detailed hearing on the project in July and will determine whether
there is a need for the pipeline in October.
If the commission approves, the governor and Cabinet ultimately would
have to agree to the route of the pipeline -- a decision expected in
December 2010 at the earliest, after a review led by the state Department of
Environmental Protection.
FPL made a presentation about the project Thursday to the Volusia County
Council. In Volusia and Flagler, the underground pipeline would be installed
almost completely in FPL's existing easements that include such things as
power lines.
Council members requested two future meetings to provide information to
the public about the project and to receive input. FPL spokesman Bob Coleman
said the company hopes to start construction in 2012.
The pipeline would enter northwest Flagler County from Putnam County and
go down the length of Flagler, staying west of populated areas such as
Bunnell. Similarly, it would stretch the length of Volusia, staying in the
lightly developed center of the county.....
more at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJo
urnalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD02090609.htm
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...Volusia County's unemployment
rate was 11.2 percent in July, the most recent figures available...
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/News/Headlines/frtHEAD04BIZ090509.htm
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Bank's thumbprint rule irks man born with no arms
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September 02, 2009 1:08 PM
The Associated Press
A Florida man born without arms says a Tampa-area bank would not let him cash
a check because he could not provide a thumbprint. ... more at
http://www.cbs12.com/news/bank-4720900-says-thumbprint.html
Business / Economy: For Commercial Real Estate, Hard Times
Have Just Begun
By TERRY PRISTIN
Those in the commercial real estate market are hardly in a
festive mood, despite some recent encouraging signs.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/business/economy/02office.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
Low-Wage Workers Are Often Cheated, Study Says
By STEVEN GREENHOUSE
A study found that most workers had experienced at least
one pay-related violation in the previous week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/us/02wage.html?th&emc=th
Opinion: Americas Death Panels
Nicholas Kristof reports health insurance providers
strategies for paying fewer medical bills.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/02/opinion/02iht-edlet.html?emc=tnt&tntemail1=y
After Century of Big Growth, Tide Turns in Florida
By DAMIEN CAVE
The Sunshine State, whose economy is tied to population
growth, is in a pall after taking hits during the recession.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/us/30florida.html?th&emc=th
| HOUSTON (AP) -- The former finance chief for
jailed Texas financier R. Allen Stanford said his boss created a business
empire where blood oaths were taken to secure loyalty, bribes were paid from
a secret Swiss bank account and investor profits were more fiction than
financial genius. New details about how Stanford
allegedly bilked investors out of $7 billion were made public Thursday after
James M. Davis, Stanford's former chief financial officer, became the first
person to plead guilty in the case.
Davis pleaded guilty in Houston federal court to three
counts: conspiracy to commit mail, wire and securities fraud; mail fraud;
and conspiracy to obstruct a Securities and Exchange Commission
investigation. The plea is part of a deal Davis, who has been helping
prosecutors, made with the Justice Department in exchange for a possible
reduced sentence.
His plea came hours after Stanford was taken from the
privately run prison where he is being ....
more at
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/
2009/08/27/former-stanford-cfo-firm_n_270789.html
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A Reluctance to Spend May Be a Legacy of the Recession
By PETER S. GOODMAN
Even though consumer spending rose in July, many Americans
are still watching their pennies, and some said their
newfound frugality would not be temporary.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/business/economy/29consumer.html?th&emc=th
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INSURANCE COMPANIES
August 28, 2009
comment by POI Hank
Insurance companies are
bad,
and want to pay out as
little as possible on just claims.
That is my sizing up of
the industry
after 72 yrs. of living.
My Insurance company
won't insure my
screened in porch.
Next year, I full expect
they will not provide
coverage for my windows.
They only want to protect
that which will
probably not be
destroyed.
That's a good racket to
be in, don't you think?
There is a lot of money
in the insurance field,
and they give a lot of it
to our congressmen
and senators, but balk at
being fair with us.
Are you like me, sick of
that dumb Geico ad
which inundates our
livings rooms,
with two eyes on top of a
pile of money.
Whose money do you think
that bundle
belongs to? You?
Do you think they really
want to give some of it to you?
Yea, sure ! ---
hank
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Bank Losses Drain Deposit Fund, F.D.I.C. Reports
By ERIC DASH
In a grim report, the agency attributed the
second-quarter loss for the banking industry to a surge
in bad loans made to home builders and commercial real
estate developers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/business/28fdic.html?8au&emc=au
| Where is
'there'?
Has everyone recently seen the sentimental TV
advertisement for State Farm Insurance? It shows a soldier returning home
and hugging her child as the music plays "I'll be there." Are you kidding
me? Perhaps State Farm didn't tell its ad agency that the company "left"
Florida before hurricane season!
B.J. WINCHESTER, Palm Coast
more letters to the editors of the Daytona Beach
News-Journal
at
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Business: Colonial BancGroup Files for Bankruptcy Protection
By REUTERS
An aggressive foray into Florida left the Alabama-based
bank exposed to many losses from construction loans and
foreclosures.
Full Story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/business/26colonial.html?emc=tnt&tntemail0=y
Waxman Takes on Drug Makers Over Medicare
By DUFF WILSON
A congressman's plan to save Medicare billions could cost
the drug industry.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/26/health/policy/26dual.html?th&emc=th
Condo Owner Finds Out About Power Mix-Up
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Taylor, Bean & Whitaker Files For Chapter 11
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| Public option
examples
With regard to your Aug. 19 editorial "Don't drop
it" pleading for the public insurance option in health care, how well has
the public option worked with property insurance in Florida? Insurance
rates have not dropped with Citizens and some private companies leaving
the state. If the federal government can't control the costs of operating
Amtrak and the U.S. Postal Service, what is the rationale for it being
able to control or lower health insurance costs?
DALE WISE, Port Orange
more letters to the editor of the Daytona Beach
News-Journal
at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/opinion.htm aug. 22,
2009 |
THE HAGGLER
Purchase Complete. (But There's More!)
By DAVID SEGAL
When an offer to join online discount programs appears
after checkout, you may be paying for something you
didn't bank on.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/your-money/23haggler.html?th&emc=th
Osceola Co. To Lay Off Hundreds Of Workers
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Business
Writer, Daytona Beach News-Journal
......Volusia, with a work force of 257,516, was ranked 30th in the state
for unemployment with a rate of 11.2 percent, down from the 11.3 percent
posted in June.
Statewide unemployment stood at 10.7 percent in July, unchanged from
June, but higher than the national rate of 9.4 percent, according to data
Friday from the state Agency for Workforce Development.
The state's seasonally adjusted rate of 10.7 percent represents 987,000
jobless out of a labor force of 9.193 million.
Snaith said it is hard to draw any conclusion from July figures compared
with the previous month. It is not a true indicator, he said. "But it is
better news than having it go up."
Still, he said he expects the labor market to continue to sputter along
and unemployment to continue to rise the remainder of this year and through
the first of next year. "The pace of layoffs is slowing down. We won't see
the huge numbers as before."
Rebecca Rust, chief economist for Workforce Development, said the July
rate stabilization could be attributed to a decline in the labor force,
including people who have just stopped looking.
"We think it will be a long road. People are still losing their jobs,"
Rust said.
Officials project the state jobless rate to reach 11 percent by the
second quarter of 2010, and don't expect it to fall below 6 percent until
the second quarter of 2018, she said.
The sector losing the most jobs last month was trade, Rust said in a
conference call. Most of those job losses were motor-vehicle related, such
as sales and maintenance. Construction jobs, which had been a lost leader,
were third on the list. The sector, which continues to increase jobs, is the
health and private education sector. Most of the job gains came from health
care, she said.
valerie.whitney@news-jrnl.com
more at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJou
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Edgewater residents warned about 'bad water' fliers
Someone posing as an Edgewater city employee has been passing out door hangers
implying the city's water quality is questionable, officials said.
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Staff Writer
, Daytona Beach News-Journal
For the first time in recent memory, Halifax Health is
telling some of its employees their jobs are being eliminated.
Each department at the area's largest provider of health
care is being asked to cut 15 percent of its salary expenses. Some
departments, such as the hospital's administration, will be taking 5 percent
pay cuts to offset the reduction. Other departments, however, will be
cutting positions and employees will be told either today or Friday that
their job is being eliminated.
Jeff Feasel, chief executive officer of Halifax, said this
morning that Halifax hopes to avoid having to "displace" people from the
organization, which employs 4,000. He said the hospital, which just opened a
$200 million expansion in July, has been hit with a number of problems:
reduced inpatient volumes, increased numbers of uninsured, reduced
reimbursement from government sources and reduced property values.
"This next fiscal year will present some even greater
challenges for us," he said.
Employees who are notified today will begin a 30-day
period during which they will remain in their job while another position
within the ....
more at
http://www.news-journalonline.com/newsjou
rnalonline/breakingnews/halifax082009.htm
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Stocks Plunge On Consumer Worries
Investors' rising fears about consumer spending are turning stocks into a
risky
investment again.
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how to take two situations that
are exactly the same and show how they are different.
-- Hart Pomerantz
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