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...Without across-the-board background checks and a database of firearms sales, it is extremely difficult for law enforcement officials to trace the source of guns recovered in crimes. Police have to trace firearms through manufacturers, distributors and individual gun dealers in a difficult, time-consuming process. Even worse, once a retail dealer has sold the gun, it can be re-sold by the owner and any subsequent owner generally without any records being kept, causing a trail of evidence to go cold before the criminal or terrorist can be found...
Harvard Business School (HBS) Chief Financial Officer Donella M. Rapier said that while many of its peer schools have already taken across-the-board cost cutting measures, HBS hopes to avoid wide-ranging cuts. “We’re looking very closely at any discretionary spending and limiting that,” she said...
Recession winners do, however, share some common traits, from good labor relations to contingency plans. Smart CEOs avoid across-the-board layoffs, instead making careful cuts that don't deplete their talent pool. And the savviest bosses stay aggressive, often using downturns to "become savvy acquirers," says Orit Gadiesh, chairman of Bain & Co., a Boston-based consulting firm. GE Capital, for instance, went on a buying binge during the Asian financial crisis a few years ago. Above all, while mediocre firms often flail around for a new strategy to deal with a downturn, the best companies just keep on doing...
...plans hope to attract much bigger networks of physicians. Definity Health, for instance, has signed up renowned, choosy providers like the Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic. Innovators such as HealthMarket, Definity and Vivius plan to let individual physicians set their own discounted rates rather than establish one flat, across-the-board price. The idea is that consumers, armed with a wealth of data on the Net, could then comparison shop...
...able to catch the Broadway-bound revival of Michael Frayn’s hysterical farce, Noises Off. The play remains one of the funniest stage delights ever conceived, and the fact that its author also composed the constantly gripping and intellectually stimulating Copenhagen speaks volumes for his across-the-board talent...