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Heavy storms that swept across the Northeast over the weekend heightened the tension, dampening sales on the critical last Saturday before Christmas. That has added to pressure on department store retailers to make unplanned markdowns on select items in the final days, says Matthew Katz, a managing director at AlixPartners, a business advisory firm. Katz notes that many retailers launched aggressive TV ads in the past few days. "That's an indication there's a little bit of tension and nervousness," he says...
Some classes have already posted final grades. If your exams were earlier in the week, there's a high chance that your grades are ready. Find out at the Registrar's website by clicking on "View Course and Grade Report...
...take quite as much off the top of your premiums as they have in the past." MLR regulations are just one of the discrepancies, including the public option and abortion funding, between the House and Senate bills that would have to be reconciled in conference committee before a final piece of legislation could be voted on and sent to President Obama. Rockefeller intends to fight hard in conference to ensure the final legislation includes the new Senate provision...
...Science and Transportation Committee - launched an investigation into MLRs. According to Rockefeller, in 2008, insurers in the individual market spent an average of 74% of premiums on health care, compared with 80% in the small group market and 84% in the large group market; some insurers cited in the final report spent as little as 66% of premiums on actual care. CIGNA, one of the insurance companies cited, says investigators erred in calculating the company's medical loss ratios. Where the report said CIGNA spent 87% of premiums in the individual market on care, the company says it actually lost...
Having concluded that President Obama's outreach has failed to halt Iran's nuclear program, the final weeks of 2009 find his Administration focused on mustering support for new sanctions against the Islamic Republic. Iran's rejection of the terms offered thus far by the U.S. and its partners has prompted Obama to largely revert to the Bush Administration's approach of ultimatums backed by sanctions - with little obvious prospect of producing a substantially different result...