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...aiming at the roughly 61 million people who are uninsured or underinsured. PlanetHospital's founder, "Rudy" Rupak Acharya, says his agency, which in the past seven months has sent some 200 patients abroad, got 11,000 inquiries in March alone. He has just retained Mercer to help him develop an insurance plan for the uninsured that will combine primary and emergency care in the U.S. with surgery abroad...
...come on so hard? Although Japan's accounting system has long been criticized as among the industrialized world's most opaque, regulators have been trying to develop what Goldstein calls "an equity culture" to encourage individual and foreign investment. That means sending a strong signal that accounting malpractice won't be tolerated...
...Katrina, Bernazzani and the police completed a list of 112 "baddest bad guys," as he puts it--people believed responsible for a disproportionate amount of the violence in New Orleans. They weren't all wanted, not in the official sense. But the plan was to track them aggressively and develop cases against them so they could be put away for a long time...
That sounds like a pretty obvious strategy. But it's hard to pull off in reality. It requires that the local police departments develop good sources of intelligence and then, the greatest challenge of all, share that intelligence with one another and with the armada of federal agents in the city--from the FBI to the U.S. Attorney's office to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). Then they have to build professional, solid cases that will hold up in court. Finally, they must avoid handing the cases to certain local...
Turning Reebok (2005 sales: $3.8 billion) around is a daunting task, one that some feel Adidas shouldn't have taken on. "Reebok is a brand you can probably develop, but it's going to cost time, and it's going to cost money," says Joerg-Philipp Frey, an analyst at Bank Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt. "Why should Adidas have to do that? They're better off concentrating on their own brand." To Adidas' Stamminger, two brands offer more leverage than one. Reebok also gives Adidas another weapon that Nike has to fend off. "There's a potential in this market...