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...last item discussed by the Faculty Council was health plan increases. According to a letter sent to Harvard faculty and staff, "premium increases in the HealthFlex Bias and Bay State plans are no substantial," officials are giving advance warning...
Netscape Communications Corporation, known for its popular World Wide Web browser, went public in August; shares started trading on the secondary market at a 300 percent premium. The company later suffered the public humiliation of having its transaction security protocol cracked twice--first by a French hacker who cracked the international version, then by a pair of computer science students at the University of California at Berkeley who cracked the (supposedly more secure) domestic version...
...over the next few weeks would be poisoned by the battle over Medicare. "Morally bankrupt" was the way Gingrich described the scare-the-elderly tactics the Democrats have been using to oppose his party's plans for Medicare reform. The House G.O.P.'s vague proposal would require much higher premium payments from more affluent patients--singles making more than $75,000 and couples making more than $150,000. It would raise the Part B premiums that cover doctors' fees, not requiring seniors to join health-maintenance organizations, but encouraging them to do so. Republican budget projections count on many seniors...
Sources close to the deal said Malone won concessions including a premium for at least some of his Turner stock, which Time Warner would acquire from other shareholders at the rate of three-quarters of a share of Time Warner for each share of Turner. It was expected that Malone would also receive "favorable terms" when purchasing programming such as CNN or Time Warner's HBO to run on his cable systems. But Time Warner refused to eliminate its poison-pill defense against takeovers, which kicks in when a shareholder acquires 15% or more of the company's stock...
...finding scores of minor league baseball games and the weather in Greenland at three in the morning, and neither would be possible without the corporate money that's been used to improve the Web in the last several months. On the other hand, the news groups, which place a premium on expression, interaction and debate rather than speed and accuracy, seem impenetrable to the forces of capitalism...