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...people over 65 will nearly double from 35 million in 2000 to 69 million in 2030, the idea of a health-care trust fund may soon become a model for other companies, particularly those in other struggling Rust Belt industries with lots of retirees. "It's not a bottomless pit, which is what employers are afraid of," says Helen Darling, president of the National Business Group on Health, a health-care-policy group for FORTUNE 500 companies. That fear has pushed many companies out of providing retiree health benefits; only 33% of companies with more than 200 employees offer them...
Crum said that universities employing Omnilert’s system had activated the system for a wide variety of emergencies—running the gamut from chemical spills and severe weather to a loose pit bull, which stalked the campus of Florida...
...shelf stocker's presumed victims were among Moscow's homeless, lured into a game of chess in a suburban park with glasses of vodka and mournful tales of Pichuzkin's beloved but deceased dog; then they were clubbed on the head with a hammer and tossed into a sewage pit to drown, if they were not dead already...
First thing is, you don't have to worry about whether Michael Vick will be playing this season. He'll be playing. For me. Without pads. In a small ring. In a league made of teams of pit bulls. You know who man's new best friend is, Michael? The back of my damn paw. Also, I'm going to sit at the table and eat food and, when Vick comes by, not offer him any. I'll put out a little bit of water in a tiny, unappetizing flat bowl, and when he goes to drink...
...polemic on Teresa, and more recently of the atheist manifesto God Is Not Great: "She was no more exempt from the realization that religion is a human fabrication than any other person, and that her attempted cure was more and more professions of faith could only have deepened the pit that she had dug for herself." Meanwhile, some familiar with the smiling mother's extraordinary drive may diagnose her condition less as a gift of God than as a subconscious attempt at the most radical kind of humility: she punished herself with a crippling failure to counterbalance her great successes...