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Some Gloucestermen bitterly blame their plight on the insurance companies, whom they perceive as greedy and heartless. But many concede that the premium jumps are justified. "In a way," says Joseph Giacalone, 52, whose 74-ft. St. Peter, built in 1927, is one of the oldest boats in the fleet, "I guess you could say that the fishermen, or at least some of them, brought this on themselves...
Declaring the resumption of business-as-usual, Assistant Secretary Everett Pyatt said that naval investigators had found "no pattern of corruption" with regard to General Dynamics' billing practices. If anything, Pyatt asserted, the Defense Department's "imprecise and ludicrous" guidelines were partly to blame. Said he of the St. Louis-based company: "They were simply doing what our procedures would allow them...
...regime likes to blame much of what it regards as decadent behavior on Western influence, particularly that of the U.S. And there is no more powerful symbol of Iran's rigid stance before the outside world than the 25-acre American embassy compound at Ayatullah Talagani Street. Today it is in the hands of the Revolutionary Guards, its walls still daubed with the students' anti-American slogans...
...service business. When Chung broadcast his intention to turn Hyundai into a Top 5 automaker, few took him seriously. Hyundai, like many family-controlled Korean companies, was ultra-hierarchical and slow to change. Division chiefs ran their operations as personal fiefdoms. "When a problem occurred, each division would blame other divisions," says Lee Hyun Soon, a senior executive in research and development...
...regulatory environment is the sole reason that the U.S. is ceding the lead in stem-cell research. That is not the fault of academic or industrial scientists, and the problem can be helped just so much by progressive state governments such as California's. The blame lies solely with the man in the White House, who seems to value the life of cells a few days old more than that of an 80-year-old Alzheimer's patient. George W. Bush is an idiot. Chris Antolik Baltimore, Maryland...