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...leader declined to elaborate on the source of the funds used to finance the new searches, save that some of them had been made possible by vacancies in endowed professorships, which are supported by restricted funds specifically reserved for departmental teaching positions...
...hands of God and we, as physicians, are not God," says Dr. Lorry Frankel, a professor at the Stanford School of Medicine and author of Ethical Dilemmas in Pediatrics. "We respect people's religious beliefs and try to compromise, but we won't deny treatment that will save lives." Frankel says he's taken Jehovah's Witnesses to court in the past when they've refused blood transfusion for their children in life-threatening cases. "The judge invariably rules in our favor and I've never had a child denied care," says Frankel...
...provision would also cost far more jobs than it created, according to a study by the Peterson Institute for International Economics in Washington. Although it focuses on iron and steel provisions, the "buy American" clause would save just 1,000 U.S. jobs because steel is very capital intensive, the study's authors Gary Hufbauer and Jeffrey Schott say. "In the giant U.S. economy, with a labor force of roughly 140 million people, 1,000 jobs or less is a very small number," they wrote. That number, they contend, would be exceeded by the jobs that would then be lost...
...Meanwhile, the government is continuing its efforts to find a buyer for Satyam and to save some of the jobs of its 53,000 employees. In a statement released on Feb. 2, Satyam claimed to have retained 95% of its top 20 clients and to have won 15 new contracts in January. At least four groups including Indian construction and engineering giant Larsen & Toubro have shown interest in acquiring a controlling stake...
...sale cannot be completed until its accounts are restated, a process that could take several months. The company said this week it secured $133 million in working capital through bank loans and announced the appointment of a temporary CEO. In the end, the board may manage to save Satyam and its employees. But the fate of the officials who brought the company to its knees is still very much an unknown...