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...rolls altogether. The reason: The federal reimbursements for taking on Medicare patients are insufficient, said the industry. Medicare officials disagreed, but they limited their immediate public reaction to that of a muted ?disappointment? over a development that could seriously complicate President Clinton?s attempt to reform Medicare and expand its coverage to include prescription drugs...
...reason is a careful strategy of making acquisitions that expand NCI geographically and also fit into an integrated structure that makes NCI the lowest-cost producer in its industry. Sheer size helps: the company has become one of the 10 biggest U.S. buyers of steel, enabling it to wangle discounts unavailable to competitors. It also saves on transportation costs by locating--or buying--plants close to steel mills. NCI builds its own automatic welding equipment, specially designed to weld mainframes of buildings together. Five years ago, it began buying painting plants, and it is the only company in the industry...
...based stock funds. A fund, at its core, is about easy, one-stop diversification. Yet many investors might as well buy individual stocks for all the fund options they feel obliged to consider. Recognizing how complex the world has become, influential fund tracker Lipper Analytical Services will expand its stock-fund categories this autumn from eight to 14. It's not just that there are more and different kinds of funds. Many managers, seeking to beat the market, stray from their investment styles. Lipper's new rating system is in part an effort to ferret out "style drift," an underrecognized...
...fledgling organization called SHARE (Students for Humane and Responsible Economics) wasted no time in its efforts to expand students' horizons...
Radcliffe will instead focus on its mission of "studying women, gender and society" and expand its already-famous post-graduate research centers. As part of the restructuring, President Linda S. Wilson, who headed the college during the negotiations that shaped its future, will resign her post as Radcliffe's seventh and final president. On Tuesday night, the Radcliffe Board of Trustees conferred upon her the title of president emerita and named the directorship of the Radcliffe Public Policy Institute in her honor...