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...average Joes with the bandwidth to open up their record collection to thousands of listeners a day, and sites like indiePOPradio.com that link users to stations geared toward particular interests, the Web holds out the promise of delivering radio from the hands of "such a lot of fools" (or profit-oriented entrepreneurs) into the grasp of the People...
...impetus behind the change has come from the Boston Sports Club, a for-profit company that has been managing the MAC since last spring...
...Trent Lott, Dennis Hastert and the Republicans in Congress want an emergency cut in the capital-gains tax - the tax levied on profit-making investment transactions - to get Wall Street churning again. And aside from the fact that profit-making investments aren't exactly common in these dour Dow days, it might work - such a cut would likely encourage some investors to liquidate some investments to free up spending cash. And a flurry of selling - just what Wall Street needs, more selling - could indeed send some tax-receipt cash back to Washington in a hurry...
NURSING NIGHTMARE For-profit nursing homes give worse care than public and not-for-profit ones, the first large-scale comparative study finds. Investor-owned homes provided 27% fewer nursing hours per patient and were almost 50% more likely to be cited for deficiencies in administration and care...
Rowe was succeeded by Paul S. Grogan, a Bostonian who had spent his career in community development. Grogan had been CEO and President of the Local Initiative Support Corporation, a non-profit organization that provides funding for urban development...