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...them with Ralph Lauren wallpaper and marble bathrooms. Others disagree, claiming that McDonald's is simply making scapegoats out of franchisees and that discounting helps the corporation at the franchisees' expense, since McDonald's takes in royalties on total sales, even as individual owners are stuck with shrinking profit margins. Though stressing that McDonald's will no longer shy away from forcing out bad owner-operators, Roberts dismisses the notion of scaling back McDonald's presence in the U.S. Says he: "We've got to be accessible to customers...
...rape victims to get the morning-after pill, but a national law is necessary to require all hospitals that receive federal funding to provide this treatment to rape victims. This would also apply to Catholic hospitals since they make up 10 out of the 20 largest not-for-profit hospital systems in the U.S., and 159 have merged with non-Catholic hospitals in the past decade. As most state laws stand now, each individual hospital has discretion...
While news of Harvard’s May 2001 Arsenal purchase sparked protests by residents, children and politicians—all concerned that the town would lose a third of its tax base to a non-profit, tax-exempt institution—last night’s meeting was marked by two standing ovations and long lists of thank-yous and welcomes...
...town retained high-profile lawyer John Lynch, who wrote a bill which would limit the amount of land a non-profit organization could take off of a town’s tax rolls to 2.5 percent...
Sponsored by Partners in Health, a non-profit group that improves health care in poor communities in the United States and around the world, and the Institute for Health and Social Justice, the talk took placed in a Science Center auditorium packed with 500 doctors, students and volunteers...