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...many deals being offered," says Derrington. "They have to stay sharp." And they'll have to do it without Shaich, a highly respected CEO who will relinquish his day-to-day role this spring, though he will stay on as chairman. A transition is in place - company co-COO Bill Moreton will step into the CEO role. "I worry about keeping the concept special," says Shaich. "Is it worth walking across the street to? It doesn't matter how cheap it is. If it isn't special, there's no reason the business needs to exist...
Graham was elected to the House in 1994, one of 32 Republican candidates who signed on to Newt Gingrich's Contract with America. A former Air Force lawyer, Graham drew national attention in 1998 as one of the managers of the House's impeachment of President Bill Clinton. Still, in 2000, he bucked the GOP establishment's pick of George W. Bush and backed McCain in the Palmetto State primary. After Graham won his Senate seat in 2002, he and McCain became close. The Arizona senator, 73, often says Graham, 54, is like a son to him, and perhaps...
...recent years Graham has developed a reputation as an independent dealmaker. In 2005 he joined with 13 moderates to block then Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist from destroying the filibuster in a fight over judicial nominees. In 2006 and 2007 he braved another censure - this one from Greenville County - to work with Ted Kennedy on immigration reform, telling incensed South Carolinians that they're "bigots...
...private insurers, says the industry MLR average is 87%, a figure that Rockefeller says is overstated. "They don't always do it accurately," says Rockefeller, calling the insurance industry "the major evil player in the whole health care system." Whatever the actual MLR figures are, the House and Senate bill would represent the first federal regulations of this kind. "The point is to get rid of the high 60s and the low 70s and get it all up into the 80s," says Rockefeller...
...House Democrats who voted against a major health care bill that narrowly passed. He also voted against an anti-global warming bill pushed strongly by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif...