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...that's just what they did. While Bush's reasons may have been rooted in due diligence, the insurance industry took the pause as a gift, according to Angela Choy, field director for the nonprofit Health Privacy Project in Washington, D.C. "The insurance industry has waged a pretty intensive campaign to get the public and Thompson to view these regulations as a bad idea - and really pushed to get the government to change aspects of the regulations in their favor...
...what have I resolved to do in 1999? I've got to admit, those vegetables are still nagging at me. Now that I've tried some of the 30-odd recipes readers have sent me for Brussels sprouts, I'm looking for a couple of good ones for bok choy...
...very much like the Soviet Union's permanent bureaucracy, the nomenklatura. They have coasted for years under the old system, and they dislike Deng's perestroika because it asks them to compete like capitalists, and capitalism has losers. "Keeping their jobs is their No. 1 priority," says Sinclair Choy, a marine engineer from Hong Kong, who in partnership with a coastal town on the mainland runs a fishing boat-repair business. "Order, stability, calm," says Choy. "That's what these Chinese officials want. Anything that threatens to upset the applecart sets them...
...Choy and I are speaking on the ferry from Hong Kong to the mainland, where he hopes finally to convince his Chinese partners that the incentive system should be introduced at their business. "Everyone is paid the same at our place, even though many are willing to work harder for more money," says Choy. "But my Chinese government partners don't want to upset those who are lazy by allocating bonuses according to merit. They have their own version of the iron rice bowl, and they don't care if incentives will result in greater productivity and more profit...
...Choy said she plans to spend $500 of her prize money this summer, but that she will put the other $1000 away to pay for medical school, which she plans to attend in August...