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Maryland's Blue Cross plan suffered a drop in net worth from $122 million in 1985 to $25 million by the end of 1992. The recently departed boss, Carl Sardegna, was given compensation of $775,000, twice the average for the Blues. In return the plan's policyholders received abysmal service marred by delays and lost claims. U.S. Senate investigators accused Sardegna and colleagues of overstating the company's net worth, keeping its directors in the dark and printing deceptive advertising about its fiscal health...
...quiet and reserved and kept pretty much to himself." -- ARMY BUDDY. "That's the way he was here, nice -- a quiet, shy fellow." -- BOSS...
...price. Much was made at the time of the contrast between her mea culpa and that of President Clinton, who vanished for hours before surfacing to claim responsibility. That contrast, which owes as much to Clinton's instincts as to hers, could strain the relationship between Reno and her boss. As supportive as he has been, and as grateful for having at least one folk hero in his Cabinet, Clinton may have got a lot more than he bargained for. She may be more than he wanted. And that makes for a complicated relationship...
...nocturnal: It's cooler at night. Try to get your teacher or your boss to let you work at night and sleep during the day. Desert animals use this method successfully...
...parallel story line, Janie's best friend Harriet Cornwall (Sumalee Gunanukorn), a Harvard M.B.A., climbs the corporate ladder at Colgate-Palmolive while she is sleeping with her boss's boss, Paul Stuart, who is married. Paul (Aaron Zelman) is suitably unctuous. Harriet is ambitious and serves well as the straight woman for many of the jokes on Yiddish pronunciation that had the Loeb Ex audience laughing out loud at the play. Claire Ellis turns in a convincing performance as the corporate achiever Lillian Cornwall, Harriet's motn. Bill Selig and Mark Fish were both serviceable in their supporting roles...