Word: crisises
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The U.S. economy is slowing from its blistering pace of late 1997 and early 1998, when growth rates ranged between 3.0% and 5.5% annually, and the sag is virtually certain to continue into next year. Given the continuing spread of the global financial crisis, from which the U.S. can no...
Brazilians sardonically call their monstrous public bureaucracy O Trem da Alegria--the Joy Train. It is ridden by millions of officials like Cesar Almeida, mayor of a working-class town near Rio de Janeiro. The Globo TV network revealed last month that he has manipulated the system so cleverly that...
To stop these spiraling costs, employers joined managed-care organizations (like HMOs) and began to set their own prices for medical services. Doctors and hospitals must accept these fees or risk losing patients. Hospitals have lost money. At Duke the crisis has spread to the research lab and the medical...
That is one reason it has been possible for hospitals to reach a point of crisis without most of us knowing how it happened. When your child is lying on a stretcher, or your spouse is worrying about a lump, there is no time to learn about how these places...
The disproportion between the two subjects is grotesque, almost a joke. To crowd Lewinsky and Rwanda into the same viewfinder is not just to discuss apples and oranges but to compare, forgive me, apples and severed heads. Each of the dramas discloses a nation in moral crisis, but as Bill...