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...business, the for-profit Let's Go, Inc., must also consider the satisfaction of its readers. They aim high, with no small amount of hyperbole: their website declares its product "the Bible of the budget traveler." A representative of the well-known Chicago bookstore Savvy Traveler makes slightly less divine assessments of Let's Go's market, limiting its niche to the youth of America. "We tend to sell Let's Go books to student or recently post-student travelers," said Savvy Traveler rep Don Schubert...
Simply getting to the ED has become potentially life-threatening. Financially strapped EMSs are having trouble keeping pace with a growing slate of 911 calls. In many communities, emergency transportation has been taken over by for-profit ambulance companies that were supposed to increase efficiency and save taxpayer money. But in some cases they've been lethally inefficient--and none too profitable to boot...
...time, Donald Pressley, an AID official, told the Wall Street Journal that AID may have "opened a gray area" when it allowed both non-profit and for-profit investors--like Schleifer's wife and Hay's girlfriend--to use ILBE...
...same issue of the journal, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine researchers published a study on kidney transplants that found that patients at for-profit dialysis centers are less likely to get on transplant wait-lists than those at not-for-profit centers...
They mainly faulted understaffing. But they also said that for-profit centers might not want to lose patients who get transplants...