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...think she thought a jury from Duluth would be naïve. We’re not that stupid up here.”Finally, our position has not been to request any sort of harsh punishment. Indeed, we did not even ask the jury to award a specific amount of damages. The jury decided the damage award after instruction from the judge. Based on some reports, jurors believed that the award should have been even higher. The characterization of our lawsuits as attempts to stave off change and preserve the well-lined pockets of rich executives and artists...
...Rather than making sure that the uninsured have a sufficient amount of choice, a single-payer system often forces everyone to have the same choice, which has an insidious flipside. In Canada this meant that no one could sacrifice more to obtain better or more prompt treatment. It was only in 2005 that the Canadian Supreme court struck down a Quebec law forbidding private insurance for medically necessary operations, claiming that it violated the defendant’s right to person...
...public will suspect that they are motivated by a vindictive egalitarianism, rather than a genuine desire to help the medically needy. The leading Democratic candidates—Clinton, Edwards, and Obama—are taking the step in the right direction by stressing the moral case for a sufficient amount of coverage for everyone...
Next came the hip-hop fashions and the all-important DJ moniker. “Not a tremendous amount of thought went into it,” Zornow says. “I liked the idea of Shiftee as being slightly criminal—you don’t know what’s going on behind those shifty eyes onstage. I guess it also works as a pun for what you do with records...
...situation," Sikora said. Poland is the biggest of the 10 nations set to join the E.U. later this year, and Sikora is hopeful that accession will boost growth. Poland's lower labor costs give it a competitive edge, and it continues to enjoy some foreign direct investment, although the amount has dropped off in the past few years. A recent McKinsey report suggests that Poland is well placed to create as many as 500,000 jobs over the next five years by becoming a new center for outsourced services for European companies. Already Lufthansa and GE, among others, have moved...