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Instituting the measures could be a boon for society, however, potentially reducing the overall price of errors - e.g., subsequent hospital visits, extra posttreatment care and lost wages - to almost negligible levels, but only if the new policies can decrease the rate of preventable errors at least 11.3%, according to the study. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Bermuda Boon. Britain's oldest colony, Bermuda, is 400 years old, so select hotels and resorts - like the Fairmont Southampton, Cambridge Beaches and The Reefs - are giving guest a $400 credit on stays of four nights or more. Check the Bermuda tourism website for participating hotels. Book through August 17, good for travel through August...
...sure, the start-date delays have been a boon for public interest organizations around the country. Research shows that some 80% of legal needs go unmet among low-income Americans, and organizations that serve such clientele, such as the Legal Aid Society, now have their pick of top law school graduates - most of whom will arrive with a paid salary and health benefits attached. But the public-interest groups still have to finance the infrastructure required for an extra person on staff. Many nonprofits have seen their own revenues fall in recent months and undertaken layoffs themselves. Just finding...
...depositors, letting them know that their financial institutions are either in good shape or being repaired. That may allow the government to start rolling back some of extra safety nets it has set up over the past year. So even though the stress tests may not be a boon for investors, they are still a positive development...
...degrees and I do the same thing.” He chuckles, “It just happened one day, and it occurred to me that it was perfect.”But winning an unlimited supply of his favorite food wasn’t entirely the unequivocal boon it seemed it would be freshman year. Ehrlich became defined by his burgers. “People were just so fixated on it that I’d go into parties and people would be like, ‘I don’t know you, but are you the burger...