Word: employs
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...bills), the consolidation catapults the 143-year-old company smack into the center of the brave new world of managed care, where consumers must choose from a company-approved network of doctors, who agree to fixed charges for most services. Or consumers can join health-maintenance organizations, which directly employ doctors and nurses. "We are going into the managed-care business because that's what people want," says Compton. "A recent study said 71% of all American employees are now covered by one form of managed care or another...
...Whitman adds that the U.S. should employ its considerable economic and political clout to "pry open the markets of other nations for our benefit and the benefit of the world economy." Global liberalization is indeed a worthy cause, but only if promoted within a multilateral framework, such as that offered by the much-maligned World Trade Organization...
...states have embraced gambling so wholeheartedly. Since 1992, when the first riverboat casino floated down the Mississippi River to Tunica, the desperately poor county that Jesse Jackson once called "America's Ethiopia," 28 casinos have sprung up from the Tennessee border to the Gulf Coast. These garish palaces employ 27,300 people and last year put $189 million into state and local coffers. "Hey, look, Tom Grey, gaming is working here in Mississippi!" declares host Rip Daniels, welcoming Grey to his talk show on WJZD, Gulfport's Afro-American radio station. Grey cites failed restaurants and increased crime in Gulfport...
...council will employ phone voting to see if the constitutional measures pass, but approval seemed likely as of early this morning...
...much despised movement of American factories to Mexico and other low-wage countries has been offset--in job creation, though not in hoopla-by the opening of foreign--owned plants in the U.S. It would take a string of Mexican maquiladoras to match the Honda plants in Ohio that employ 11,200 workers...