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...those concepts would break the traditional fee-for-service model, in which the more treatment doctors and hospitals give, the more they get paid - regardless of whether what they are doing is necessary or even beneficial for the patient. And each is likely to draw heavy flak from health care providers who see their autonomy - and their incomes - in jeopardy...
...machine are much more powerful today than they were then. Third, extramarital affairs are uniquely damaging - in particular, I think this will hurt his popularity with women. Fourth, he's a Stanford-educated golfer who supposedly did everything right. His image was premised on class, elegance, aspiration. He took flak just for being seen swearing on the course. I think this is going to be damaging, at least initially. (See pictures of Tiger Woods' best victory moments...
...Lehman go bankrupt would be a disaster. Those same officials have since argued that the law gave them no choice. But it's also clear that the authorities--then Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, in particular--didn't want to intervene. The Fed and Treasury had taken a lot of flak for their earlier bailouts of Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. It was time to let the market work...
Google Adwords, the popular search company’s flagship advertising arm that matches online advertisers with related websites, is drawing flak from Business School Professor Ben G. Edelman for business practices he says deprive advertisers of basic rights. In a report published last Monday, Edelman outlines what he considers the five basic rights of online advertisers and argues that Google—which commands 72 percent of the online advertising market—systematically violates these rights. In the report, titled “Towards a Bill of Rights for Online Advertisers,” Edelman wrote in support...
...reds did have a burnt-rubber taste - but it was not specific to varietal, year or even South Africa, appearing in wines from other countries too. And the answer to how South Africa can produce some of the world's best and most keenly priced wines but still catch flak internationally is obvious to anyone who has compared a thousand-bottle wine list in Cape Town to the tiny shelf of cheap table wine labeled South African in their local store. "We export the crud," says a manager at a leading Cape Winelands exporter, requesting anonymity...