Word: columbia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Scott is accomplishing that goal that is transforming how American hospitals do business. In an industry notorious for waste and inefficiency, Scott aggressively consolidates operations and imposes cost controls. By creating an interlocking system of health-care delivery that offers everything from complex surgery to home therapy, Columbia has attracted business from the insurance companies that have in turn fostered the managed-care revolution...
...Columbia's size allows it to demand deep discounts from suppliers. The company's doctors, for example, have been encouraged to buy hospital gowns from a single source for a 20% saving. And according to Graef Crystal, who tracks CEO pay, Scott's 1995 salary of $858,000 was 20% less than the rate in his league (though his Columbia shares are worth $6.9 million). "You know if you've been in the hospital that you don't like the process," says Scott, who lives in Nashville, Tennessee. "We focus on how we can make it enjoyable...
...have to face a Louisiana jury. Attorney Joseph Simpson, who represents clerk Patsy Byers, has named Stone and Warner Bros. in a civil suit filed before Grisham's statements. But other experts feel confident that Stone's First Amendment rights will prevail. Besides, says Vincent Blasi, a professor at Columbia Law School, "this idea of legal liability could come back to haunt authors like John Grisham. Censorship, like revolution, often devours its own children...
EDWARD W. SAID Professor of English and comparative literature, Columbia University...
...path that led to Carnegie Hall started off in the Vancouver suburb of Nainamo, British Columbia, where Krall was born 30 years ago. Canada might not be New Orleans, but its native jazz greats include Oscar Peterson and Gil Evans. Nevertheless, Krall sought her muse south of the border. While still in her teens she left home to study jazz piano at Boston's Berkelee school, then moved on to Los Angeles, where she befriended the great bassist Ray Brown, a veteran of Peterson's band. Brown taught her the Zen of swing--"You just feel it, " she says. "They...