Word: controll
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...reasons for this trend is that middle management, often a company's eyes and ears for detecting illicit activity, regularly bears the brunt of redundancies during a slowdown. "When that layer's removed, you've eroded your internal processes which are there to control fraud or misconduct," says Hitesh Patel, fraud-investigation partner at KPMG in London. A key factor in fraud cases during Britain's last recession, in the early 1990s, it amounts to a "change to business strategy, without a change to the business process," says Patel...
...Crimson on December 7, 1996, you would have discovered a news feature about a student trying to find room in his schedule to get to Boston for an HIV test. At that time, Harvard did not offer anonymous HIV testing, so students looking for anonymity while staying in control of their health were sent packing. It’s rare that health care goes backward, but University Health Services’s recent decision to end anonymous testing (instituted in 1996) is one of those times. Effective August 1, only confidential testing will be provided by UHS, meaning that test...
...result, Congress is looking into solutions like health-care-coverage premium subsidies for lower-income Americans. But that still won't address the out-of-control health-care costs in areas like South Florida. This month Medicare chose Miami as one of 14 cities to take part in a project to reduce unnecessary hospital readmissions. And because South Florida's population is largely elderly, more local health-care reformers are urging doctors and hospitals to examine costly and often pointless treatment for dying patients. A 2008 Dartmouth study suggested that South Florida hospitals generate especially high bills for such cases...
...political compromise on autonomy for Tamil-majority areas. Confrontations between the Tigers and the government increased, and the assassinations resumed. The LTTE itself began to splinter, and one of Prabhakaran's top lieutenants, known as Karuna, broke away. With Karuna's help, the eastern provinces came under control of the government...
...That left Prabhakaran with control of the north, secured by several thousand soldiers. But the transformation from running a guerrilla force to a conventional army may have been the leader's undoing. The nation's current President, Mahinda Rajapaksa, took office in 2005 and vowed to pursue a military solution. In a conventional war against an army many times its size, the LTTE was sure to be outmatched, and eventually it was. Prabhakaran never again appeared before the press after 2002, but he continued to release photos and speeches every year. "With its greed for land, Sinhalam [Sri Lanka...