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Here's the crux of the matter: while the cost of health care has risen about 10% a year recently, the cost to small businesses has gone up at about twice that rate. Many owners stop offering coverage or push costs onto employees, who then opt out. Basically, big companies with thousands of employees get better rates because the underwriter's risks are spread out. One catastrophic illness is easily absorbed. But one big-ticket illness in a pool of 10 or 20 people can make premiums unaffordable...
DiPietro, however, lost his NCAA eligibility by declaring for the draft. Only 18 years old, he was not automatically placed on the list of available players and had to "opt-in" to the draft. In the process, he had to forgo his remaining three years at B.U. and is now the latest goaltending savior for the Islanders as the first netminder ever selected with the No. 1 pick overall...
...They didn't want to bow to student pressure and adopt a living wage, but they wanted to co-opt the idealism of the campaign and appease us," says William W. Erickson '00-'01, a member of PSLM...
...Russians maintain their opposition to making changes, Washington's only option for going ahead will be to opt out of the treaty. Although candidate George W. Bush favors this approach - or at least threatening it, to press the Russians to accept new terms - the present administration fears it could provoke a new arms race. In addition, the treaty requires that Washington inform Moscow six months ahead of time before opting out of the treaty, which makes it a policy decision that would have to be taken smack in the middle of a U.S. presidential election season...
...ever higher levels of skill, it is no surprise that decentralized decision making--what we otherwise call a market economy--takes over from central planning. But there is another factor at work as well: globalization, along with the information-technology revolution that underpins it. A country that decides to opt for a heavy-handed, government-controlled economy will find itself falling further and further behind countries that are economically freer. Formerly, it was possible for socialist countries to close themselves off from the rest of the world, content that they had achieved social justice even if their economies appeared...