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When Representative Charlie Norwood, a Georgia Republican, introduced a bill last year that would have opened the door to HMO malpractice suits, the American Association of Health Plans quickly parried with a study by the accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick predicting that the resulting torrent of suits would pump up premiums as much as 8.6%--a claim that lost some currency when, in a similar study, the Congressional Budget Office concluded that costs would rise only 1.2%, a mere $7 per covered employee per year. House Republicans, led by Dennis Hastert of Illinois, now Speaker, opposed the plan largely...
...site day-care programs, parenting classes, referrals to elder care for aging parents, and tuition money for college-bound kids. The alternative, they know, is that they may lose "the best and most creative employees in their fields," says Peter Elinsky, partner in charge of compensation and benefits at KPMG Peat Marwick in Washington...
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...survey of 841 U.S. college students conducted over the Internet found that 64 percent of respondents expect to change careers three or more times. The survey appeared on a Web site for KPMG Peat Marwick LLP, a professional services firm, and was part of a continuing series of weekly on-line polls...
...handle data as well as voice traffic, a market that will rival today's volume of PC sales. "I foresee an absolutely huge future for the pretty amazing new stuff that's going to be added to the mobile phone," says Martin Heath, a telecommunications specialist for consultants KPMG in London. "There will be tremendous battles for who controls the value of this chain. Symbian has the advantage, but it's 10 yds. in a marathon, not 10 yards in the 100-yd. dash...