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...bureaucratic: when one American working in Brussels asked after the health of a stricken secretary, he was told, "She has a certificate for three days." And not everybody considers a doctor's say-so reliable. In Berlin, says bkk spokesman Horst Engelhardt, "Doctors want to keep their patients. I bet you that if you go to three doctors, one of them will give you a medical certificate even if you are not ill." To head off this problem, Italian law says that doctors who make follow-up checks on sick workers must be selected by a social security institution...
Even as the debate over long-term storage of spent nuclear fuel raged during the 1990s, U.S. uranium consumption rose about 35% over the decade, to about 55 million lbs. in 2001. That makes Cameco's bet on McArthur River--and the firm's nearby mine, Cigar Lake, which could begin production around mid-decade--look a lot less foolish...
...wouldn’t be hard to provide Americans with more opportunities to read the supreme law of the land. One way would be to put copies in hotel rooms, next to the Bible and the yellow pages. Given a choice between those two and the Constitution, I bet a lot of Americans would pick up the Constitution...
...raising the class issue?” he said. “You bet your life...
...current funk; historically, the long-term average is 17 - and 13 coming out of a bear market. "The bearish view is that we're about twice where we should be," he said. "With the economy recovering and the Iraq issue resolved, I still see stocks as being a better bet than bonds or cash," he said. "But I think we're looking at something on the order of mid-to-high single digits for the next couple of years...