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...reform, it's not nearly that simple. For starters, most large companies (1,000 employees or more) are self-insured, with a private health-insurance company merely acting as the benefits administrator. In these cases, Kerry's proposal would levy the excise tax directly on employers, whose extra cost burden could be (and many say most certainly would be) passed onto employees in the form of higher contributions to premiums, higher deductibles and higher co-pays. "It is not a tax on insurers," says James Klein, president of the American Benefits Council, which advocates for employer-provided benefits...
...that would come at a cost - the Lancet researchers also estimated that a 12-week school closure could cost the U.S. as much as 6% of its GDP, and the burden would fall disproportionately on working families with few options for child care. For now, the WHO and national health agencies are hedging their bets. "School closing is one mitigation measure that could be considered by individual countries," says WHO spokesperson Alphaluck Bhatiasevi...
...portion of inmates do you think this will affect? That's hard to say, but I'm sure there's a lot of them who have wealth above $40,000. Whatever little bit each inmate can help to pay in those upper income levels is going to take the burden collectively, and I think very largely, off the taxpayers. And we certainly need that in New York State right...
...specialized information: trade magazines, financial-services data, textbooks. The news business is not in its DNA, just as business journalism wasn't in Conde Nast's. Business Week was a stepchild tolerated only as it more or less paid its own way and offered prestige. Once it became a burden, it needed to be hustled off the estate...
Father Figures Three other Hogwarts boys - one in the present, two from the past - have virtually the same burden: they've been chosen to play crucial roles in the great conflict. One shadowy figure is a student whose old, annotated schoolbook, marked "Property of the Half-Blood Prince," helps Harry ace his potions course and perform some vital magic. The other, seen in flashbacks, is the brilliant, troubling Tom Riddle, Voldemort to be, whom Dumbledore (Michael Gambon) recruits from an orphanage to Hogwarts. As played at 11 by Hero Fiennes Tiffin (a nephew of Ralph Fiennes, the series' Voldemort...