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...that the state revoke Buffalo Brothers' license. Instead, the state fired the director. (Some years later, the state paid him $290,000 to settle a lawsuit over the dismissal.) The disgruntled tribe members sued Buffalo Brothers, and by 1994, amid the rancor, the St. Croix Band bought out its contract, reportedly for more than $30 million. Palmer and his partner exited the state very wealthy men. "I was in the right place at the right time," he later told Sarasota magazine...
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...decision almost surely represents the end of Vaux’s nine-year career as a professor at Harvard. Vaux said he has already signed a contract to start teaching as a senior faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (UWM) next fall, since he was told by UWM that he could preemptively resign if he was granted tenure at Harvard...
Think you've got problems choosing a health-care plan? Consider Michael Scarpa, benefits manager for the 13,000 U.S. employees of ABB, the power-and automation-technologies giant based in Zurich, Switzerland. Until recently, as contracts expiredevery May, 20 HMOs in 40 states would send in six-inch-thick binders containing detailed bids for ABB's business. Scarpa, 37, and his staff would spend days plowing through the paperwork. Then Scarpa would often pay a consultant as much as $45,000 to analyze the bids for each contract up for renewal...
...enabled Scarpa and his staff to make that decision in half the time it would have taken before. From the receipt of bids to the comparative analysis, the entire process was handled via the Internet. The binders disappeared, as did the pricey consultants. Scarpa is negotiating a long-term contract with IE-Engine that he estimates will save 20% in costs...