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...That’s a hard combination to find,” he said. “The people who fill the bill are in great demand and have lots of competing choices...
...anyone nostalgic for the vigor of a Howard Dean speech, AL GORE may seem an unlikely fill-in. But the once wooden former Veep is reinventing himself as a finger-jabbing political firebrand. In a speech at New York University, he lashed out at the war in Iraq, demanded the resignation of six key Administration officials and called Bush "the most dishonest President since Richard Nixon." With growls for emphasis...
...Wisconsin case and two similar ones in Texas have prompted fears among pro-choice groups that antiabortion forces are taking their fight to the pharmacy counter. The American Pharmacists Association says pharmacists should be allowed to refuse to fill a prescription. If they do, however, it ought to be filled by someone else or transferred to another pharmacy, the group has said. Laws are vague on the subject. But two states, South Dakota and Arkansas, have passed laws that explicitly protect pharmacists who refuse to fill birth-control prescriptions on moral or religious grounds. Similar legislation has been introduced...
Families can change all that. Picking better foods and preparing them healthfully certainly helps. But so does a return to the time when eating was seen not just as a way to fill up but as an opportunity to transact the business of being human. A set table and a balanced meal take a lot more work than a carry-out pizza. But the rewards are infinitely richer...
Halliburton employs intermediary companies to provide electronic equipment and other goods in order to fill its orders quickly, and one such arrangement has already run into trouble. KBR used Altanmia Commercial Marketing, a Kuwaiti firm with ties to the country's ruling family, rather than the Kuwaiti national oil company, to fill some of its initial fuel orders. That deal is now the subject of an investigation by the Kuwaiti government and is also being looked into by the Pentagon, which says Altanmia's markup--about $1 per gal.--resulted in a $61 million overcharge. Halliburton says it used Altanmia...