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...group of Americans is still mad as hell at the Postal Service--its workers. The number of employee grievances awaiting arbitration rose 44% last year, a sign of mounting labor tension. The premium on efficiency has, according to the Washington Post, driven a few desperate workers in West Virginia to rig the independent audits of their on-time delivery. And in another burst of ghastly work-related violence, a Milwaukee, Wis., mail handler killed himself and a co-worker last month. Union leaders are becoming bellicose over what they call management's failure to share bonuses with workers. "The labor...
...graduate student at the University and a subscriber of coverage for my wife and newborn son. As such, I pay out-of-pocket a whopping $2,955 per year for dependent coverage alone. The total health-care premium for my family...
...Premium Price...
...care. In a recent nationwide poll by the Kaiser Family Foundation, an independent health-care philanthropy, 55% of those in managed care said they worry that their health plan is concerned more about saving money than providing the best care. That negative feeling isn't helped by the premium increases of 5% to 10% that some patients discovered this year when they tore open their HMO enrollment packets...
...that's the point. Thanks to Hollywood westerns, cowboy chic has worldwide appeal; John Wayne is the very image of the American to many Asians and Europeans. And U.S. beef has a reputation in many overseas markets for premium quality. So overseas buyers went looking for Link, rather than Link for them...