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...HMOS and insurance plans. The move followed Merck's 1993 acquisition of Medco, another national outlet. Such mergers worry some health-care experts. "Why would hospitals now want to deal with Medco?" asks Alan Shapiro, a finance professor at the University of Southern California business school. "Hospitals and HMOS dealt with it in the past because it was independent and they were really putting the screws on all the pharmaceutical companies. But Medco is no longer going to be a disinterested intermediary...
...items dealt with citizens living on the border between Cambridge and Somerville. One order pertained to residential exemptions, while the other applied to the question of who iseligible to vote in Cambridge...
...last week, as variations on the Clinton plan started heading toward compromise in Congress, the church dealt the process a sharp blow. Noting that three of the health-care plans emerging from committees listed abortion as part of a standard-benefits package, the National Conference of Catholic Bishops sadly but unanimously vowed to mount a grass-roots campaign against the final product if it followed suit. That announcement bred others: 72 members of Congress said they would have difficulty voting for any bill that doesn't include abortion as a benefit. Thirty-five others responded by making public a threat...
Roger & Me dealt with the effects of General Motors layoffs in Moore's hometown of Flint, Michigan, and was structured around his efforts to meet with Roger Smith, who was then CEO of GM. Shambling, wearing sagging jeans and badly in need of a haircut, Moore sought out the elusive chairman in posh offices and clubs. He pursued his subject doggedly, and his innocent, straight-faced directness with the public relations executives and others keeping him away from Smith gave the film a subdued hilarity...
...government. While USDA officials had the responsibility to bargain with Puerto Rico, as the earlier court order contemplated, the Broiler Council took over instead. USDA staffers in San Juan say their bosses in Washington told them to back off. "Face it," says a career USDA official who has dealt with the poultry industry for two decades. "On something like this we're not going to accept anything the Broiler Council doesn't want and they're not going to accept anything Tyson doesn't want. So why waste time? Let the Broiler Council carry the ball...