Word: amr
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...Israel's Lebanese Christian militia allies in the Sabra and Shatila refugee area near Beirut. The official government report found that Sharon as Defense Minister had "indirect responsibility" for the massacres, and that event remains an essential part of the Arab vision of him.* "For us," says Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Gaza, "he could never be anything except a murderer and criminal...
Milton won his prominence in a bareknuckle corporate brawl. Only a few weeks after assuming the presidency in August 1999, he was hit with a hostile takeover bid backed by AMR, parent of American Airlines. Milton won a court verdict reaffirming a law that said no single shareholder could own more than 10% of Air Canada, effectively scuttling the bid. Then, with backing from United Airlines and Lufthansa, Air Canada swallowed its competitor for a fire-sale $61 million. Milton summed up his business philosophy: "I don't mess around with other people, and I don't like people messing...
...King incident may be an extreme example, but it is symptomatic of service changes in the ambulance industry--all of them bad, say consumer advocates--wrought by a combination of managed care, Medicare and privatization. A handful of negligence lawsuits have been filed in Connecticut against AMR, the nation's largest private ambulance corps. Cobbled together out of more than 200 mom-and-pop firms, AMR has built a $1 billion-a-year business providing ambulance service to an increasing number of communities that outsource their...
...idea is that private companies can provide services more efficiently than governments and that a large corporation is more efficient than hundreds of smaller ones. In the past year, though, AMR has been attacked in states from Connecticut and Georgia to Colorado for lagging response times, shoddy service and putting the profit motive first. After a series in the Hartford (Conn.) Courant last year exposed glaring lapses in AMR's service record, Connecticut's attorney general tried to inject a dose of healthy competition, forcing AMR to sell some ambulances and give up some contracts...
...AMR's chief operating officer, Greg Guckes, argues that much of the criticism comes from public EMSs, which feel threatened by such a large challenger. The company makes no more mistakes than any of its peers, he claims, but gets more attention because of its size. "I would put our record against any company's--public, private or volunteer," says Guckes...