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...Emirates. His new company provides him with a freshly pressed uniform and a chauffeur-driven car to each flight. Murray has twice the vacation time (42 days), guaranteed annual raises and a benefits package that has lured more than 100 U.S. pilots to Emirates over the past four years. One-third of the 23 former U.S. Airways pilots at Emirates had the option to return when the airline recalled them from furlough after the cuts in 2004. Only one did. "It's just not worth it," Murray says. "Employees have been beaten down to the lowest common denominator, where...
...approximate number of iconic red phone booths--one-third of the nation's total--that British telecom giant BT has removed in the past six years in response to decreased usage...
When the Department of Transportation and the D.C. police recently conducted a two-month street-safety campaign, undercover cops at crossings and pull-over police units issued 6,000 tickets - two-thirds to drivers and one-third to pedestrians for jaywalking, Branyan said. Though Washington police, along with other law enforcement agencies, agree that the increase in text messaging endangers both drivers and pedestrians (many states have outlawed text messaging while driving, and Maryland and Virginia are considering banning cyclists from text messaging on the go), Branyan thinks that creating new laws to ban texting, particularly in urban areas where...
...Second is disability compensation. Already, one-third of the troops who have returned from Iraq have applied for disability benefits. This is a cost that continues for years—the peak year for paying World War II benefits was 1993. The federal government spends $4.3 billion a year in disability compensation for veterans of the first Gulf War, even though that conflict lasted only a month. Given the intensity of combat and the high injury rates in Iraq and Afghanistan, we expect close to 50 percent of current troops to qualify for long-term disability compensation...
...firm, which will operate under the name Allscripts, will become one of the largest players in the U.S.'s $20 billion electronic health-record industry. In its present form, Allscripts manages data for more than 40,000 American physicians. Once the firm merges with Misys, that figure will treble to 150,000 - or roughly one-third of all practicing doctors in the U.S. It's a level of penetration that could finally lend consistency to the country's electronic health-records industry, which to date has been plagued by thousands of conflicting software systems. Along with cost and privacy concerns...