Word: controllers
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...second act has been a deluge of litigation. Following his ouster, Drabinsky was sued in Canada by Livent's new managers, including Furman and Hollywood honcho Michael Ovitz, who had taken control of the company in June. Then came a criminal indictment in U.S. federal court and fraud charges by the Securities and Exchange Commission, alleging that Drabinsky fiddled with the books to disguise Livent's precarious financial condition. He's been accused of hiding expenses, of misleading auditors and devising a kickback scheme that funneled more than $5 million to him and his longtime partner Myron Gottlieb...
...stare at a middle-aged white guy with an angry grin aiming a '38 at my face. "They're gunning for you," reads the tag line on the page--an ad for the Virginia-based campaign consulting firm called Jamestown Associates. In light of the recent imbroglio over gun control in the house, Jamestown promises to "turn those bullets into blanks" for GOP. candidates who will campaign against those nefarious Democrats...
...fact remains that Israel does control a disproportionate amount of the West Bank underground aquifers (80 percent), a major source of drinking and irrigation water in the region. Israel also has more advanced agricultural and technological needs for this water. Still, many of Israel's neighbors blame their daily thirst, or at least fear that their wells will soon run dry, on the territorial nature of the Jewish state. Classic anti-Israel rhetoric. Israel still looms in the popular imagination as the capitalistic conquistadors. By all accounts, this is an unfair charge but proof that resentment and bitterness still exists...
...health contributor Fred Golden. "This is what managed care is all about: parceling less care to more people." In such a system doctors will not be able to do all that they want and patients will not be able to obtain all that they seek. "When doctors were in control," says TIME medical columnist Christine Gorman, "costs escalated. To control costs, some care has to be denied." Which is why the ongoing debates on Capitol Hill about managed care are currently stalemated: Neither party is able to come up with a for-profit system that will consistently cut costs...
VACCINE WARNING The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has called on doctors to stop giving a vaccine against rotavirus, the leading cause of severe diarrhea in infants--at least until its safety is confirmed. The vaccine may have caused a serious intestinal blockage in some 20 babies. To report problems, call...