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...February??? This year's ceremony, with host Billy Crystal, is three weeks earlier than usual. One reason: the Academy didn't want its big show to limp into view two months after the Golden Globes and the People's Choice Awards had co-opted much of Oscar's clout. Another reason: TV revenue. ABC, a major-network also-ran, wants the show that earns its highest ratings and biggest ad income to be aired during the February sweeps month...
...Maybe in any other field, but not in health care. What the Westers found out is that they had just lost the second lottery. Hospitals everywhere--public, nonprofit institutions as well as private, profit-making ones--routinely charge the uninsured, the people who have no clout, the most. How much more? On average, five times as much, according to K.B. Forbes, a patient-rights advocate who has spent the last three years analyzing and securing reductions in the hospital bills of uninsured working people from California to Florida. In the Westers' case, Forbes found, Medicare would have paid less than...
...Elections Commission (FEC), which is tasked with enforcing campaign finance laws, also deserves congressional support. The FEC must be given greater authority and legitimacy to implement these new laws. With campaign finance-related investigations already launching, including one against House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, the FEC needs clout and power to make campaign finance reform the unchallenged law of the new political landscape. Additional measures like these will guarantee that the Supreme Court’s decision truly transfers power from the special interests back to the American voters, where it belongs...
Zhong was the only one in that room with the clout to make the call. The situation was simple: the wild-animal business in Guangdong was estimated to be worth anywhere from $100 million to $200 million a year; the economic impact of another SARS outbreak, however, was immeasurable. Zhong called on Jan. 4 and later that day an order was issued to launch a campaign to eradicate civets from the province's farms and markets. By the next morning, said Peng Shangde, deputy director of the Guangdong Forestry Department, "we were staffed and the trucks were rolling...
...There was only one man in that room with the clout and reputation to recommend a measure this extreme. Zhong was delegated to call Governor Huang Huahua. The argument he could give was simple: the wild animal business in Guangdong was estimated to be worth anywhere from $100 million to $200 million a year; the economic impact of another SARS outbreak, however, was immeasurable. Zhong made that call on Sunday. He can be very persuasive: the order was given later that day to the Guangdong Health Department and the Guangdong Forestry Department, among other agencies, to launch a campaign...