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Janet L. Thompson, manager of insurance programs, says these increases have been less than the rise in the consumer price index and in annual medical costs nationwide. How does UHS do so well? "Management techniques," she says, refusing to specify further...
...meet the challenge of discount and generic brands. Fears of a price war prompted Wall Street to dump tobacco stocks. Philip Morris shares plunged $14.75, to $49.38, and since the company is among the 30 firms whose stocks are in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, that bellwether index plummeted. A weak bond market and news that the unemployment rate remained at 7% in March helped intensify the rout on the Big Board. The Dow was down nearly 69 points on the day, to close...
DERIVATIVES, THOSE HOT "BASKETS" OF FINANCIAL products that balance risky but potentially lucrative investments with conservative ones, are at your corner bank. For people rolling over IRA and Keogh money, Citibank offers a five-year deposit account with income tied to Standard & Poor's 500 stock index. Put in $10,000 now when the S&P is 450, and if the index average climbs 150 points by 1998, Citibank will return $6,660 along with the principal. Next to a conventional five-year CD, which would pay $2,613, the stock-linked account looks like a skyscraper. Should the market...
Bossert said that such innovations as a pension plan tied to the cost of living index and a long-term health care plan that would cover nursing-home care would definitely ease professors' fears about retiring...
...creative." Two graduate students, positioned at opposite ends of the 50-ft. tank, throw full body and soul into communicating this message to the animals, Phoenix and Akeakamai. First the humans ask the dolphins to pay attention by holding a finger high in the air. Then they tap the index fingers of each hand together, forming the gesture that has been taught to mean tandem. Next they throw their arms up in an expansive gesture that signifies creative. The dolphins have just been told, "Do something creative together...