Word: priore
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Schultz moved swiftly. On Jan. 30, he announced that Starbucks would close 100 underperforming stores and curtail U.S. store openings to about 1,175 in 2008, down 34% from the prior year. The breakfast sandwiches were toast in North America. To get focused on the long term, it would stop reporting comp-store sales to Wall Street. Then, at the March 19 annual meeting, the company laid out its initiatives to reinvigorate the "coffee experience." Some of the projects had been kicked around, but with Schultz back in the CEO chair, everything started to get done more rapidly. "The rate...
...week ending January 26, 2008, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell by 200 points after the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts failed to kick-start the economy, the surge in searches for "recession" increased two-fold over searches for the term in the prior weeks of 2008. But as with searches for "gas prices" and "foreclosures," our concerns over the news was ephemeral. By the following week, those same searches decreased...
...suggested that it may have played a role in the deaths of four critically ill patients trapped in a New Orleans hospital after Hurricane Katrina. (Louisiana prosecutors went further, charging the patients' doctor and two nurses with second-degree murder; a grand jury refused to indict them.) Two years prior, in a 2004 article in the New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Timothy Quill, a professor of medicine at the University of Rochester, described using sedation to help his father die. Cases like these have fueled public unease with the practice...
...facing the Ad Board for drug abuse? Beyond its blatant disregard for student growth and rehabilitation, this policy further demonstrates how out of touch with student interests the Ad Board is. Unfortunately, the sole avenue for feedback—the required letter of reflection that the Ad Board evaluates prior to reinstating a student’s registration—sheds little light. Quite predictably, students pleading to return to school have little incentive to be honest or forthright about the pitfalls of time off. Hopefully, the student perspective that Sundquist’s appointment brings shall be the first...
...health aspects of medicine, cultural competence, increasing access, and reducing disparities.” The CHA’s financial woes stem largely from the number of uninsured patients it has been treating in the months following the enactment of Massachusetts’ health care reform act last year. Prior to the law, the CHA was reimbursed by the Commonwealth for the full cost of providing uncompensated services. But Boudrow said that the CHA is now only receiving 60 to 70 cents for each dollar of medical services that it provides. This reduction has had a significant financial impact...