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...have joined up have found them toxic to their employment prospects. And many patient-clients are questioning the candor of their medical guidance. They are for-profit health-management organizations (HMOs). The aggravating agent is a clause in many HMO contracts, variously described by critics as a "loyalty oath" and a "gag rule," that forbids doctors to reveal certain sorts of information, including treatment options, to anyone, including their patients. The A.M.A. House of Delegates has ruled that such restrictions "are not in the best interests of patients and physicians...
...conjures very unpleasant comparisons with an earlier 'gate.' This is going to attract the avid interest not only of the Senate investigators but of independent Whitewater investigator Kenneth Starr, who probably would like to have gotten these records when he originally asked for them." Hillary Clinton has stated under oath that she did little work related to the troubled S & L, but conflicting comments made by her associate Susan Thomases have prompted renewed demands from Whitewater investigators for her time sheets. Until now, the whereabouts of the documents was unknown. Releasing the documents Friday, Clinton lawyer David Kendall said...
...power they had finally won. So he scrapped the seniority system, to install as chairmen members who had proved their fealty, and then he packed the key committees with his acolytes, to make sure the chairmen behaved. He even required all members of the Appropriations Committee to sign an oath of loyalty to the Contract with America as a condition of serving. And he abolished three committees and 25 subcommittees and sliced staffs by a third, which made it harder for rivals to create their own mini-empires...
...city council shall, by a majority vote of all the members elected, elect a mayor and a vice-chairman form its own members and the persons elected as such shall likewise make oath to perform faithfully the duties of the prospective offices to which they are elected...," the charter reads...
...state judge in the civil case against O.J. Simpson ruled that, contrary to his lawyers' wishes, Simpson's upcoming pretrial deposition will not be sealed. During the deposition, O.J. will be questioned under oath--for the first time--by lawyers for the families of murder victims Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman...