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...added that emergency departments do not always get enough resources because they do not bring in much profit for the hospital...
...first mistreated hundreds of thousands of veterans, then took the position that the vets could not bring their grievances to court to be heard," said Melissa Kasnitz, whose non-profit law firm, Disability Rights Advocates, represents the veterans groups. "Today, VA's shameful effort to keep these deserving veterans from their day in court was rejected...
CEOs who scored high on measures of power - competence, dominance and facial maturity - and on a measure of leadership were in many cases the ones who ran companies with the biggest overall profits. (The study looked at profit, not profit margin, but controlled for firm size.) On the other hand, executives who were rated highly on measures of warmth, such as likeability and trustworthiness, didn?t necessarily match up with successful companies. Boards of directors take note: "There's no relationship between how trustworthy a person seems and how well the company does," says Nicholas Rule, a doctoral candidate...
...Odyssey's secrecy has fueled the suspicions of Spain's government, however, which fears that a valuable piece of its cultural patrimony has been exploited by a for-profit company. In July and again in October 2007, the Spanish civil guard and navy, following local court orders, detained and searched Odyssey ships as they attempted to leave their docks in Gibraltar. The detentions sparked intense media scrutiny, with much of the Spanish press expressing outrage over Odyssey's "pillaging" and some international publications decrying what they consider Spain's strong-arm tactics. Since then, Spain's Ministry of Culture...
...offspring. The cub, christened Knut, went on to become a media celebrity, gracing the cover of Vanity Fair and inspiring a blog devoted to his daily routine. A Hollywood producer, Ash Shah, recently offered the Berlin zoo $100,000 for the rights to his life story, plus a profit share for the zoo of up to $5 million if the movie does well. Negotiations are still underway. Even without that deal, Knut's presence has earned the zoo millions of dollars in extra admission and merchandising fees. Nuremberg's zookeepers say that their initially cool response to saving the endangered...