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...longtime policy adviser on health care. The state recently revealed that it faces a $58 billion shortfall in funding for retiree health care, even larger than GM's. To meet that gap, New Jersey has asked retirees to pay more in premiums, but the state may eventually have to scale back spending on services like public colleges and mass transportation. Some cities, such as New York and Duluth, Minn., have already set up health-care trust funds. Others may follow--or risk getting downgraded by bond-rating agencies...
...confuse this with a crisis. Really. These ignominies, significant though they may be, risk overshadowing the real progress that the 45-year-old Dubliner has made at BA since taking over in 2005 as its youngest ever boss. The scale of the challenge of running BA, Europe's third largest airline, after his four years as boss of the Irish carrier Aer Lingus "was easy," says Walsh. "I just multiplied everything by 10." That applied to problems too. When he arrived, the company's pension fund was short by almost $3 billion, more than the shortfall at any other major...
...with any project of this scale, there are some associated costs beyond the obvious financial ones,” the letter said. “We are doing our best to make sure the construction has minimal impact on your Law School experience, but some disruptions are inevitable, and when they happen, the Law School community will need to work together to overcome them...
...last about a week. For other Tulane students—such as Tommy E. Slattery, a freshman and native of New Orleans, and Ahmed A. Salahudeen, a sophomore from Jackson, Miss.—evacuation was coupled with a sense of foreboding, but none could expect devastation on the scale of Katrina...
...move reflects the dilemma confronting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert: Some of his generals have been clamoring for a large-scale offensive against Gaza in retaliation for a rocket strike earlier this month by Palestinian militants that landed in a military base, wounding 60 Israeli soldiers. But a big assault on Gaza, said the plan's critics, could have cost Israeli lives and got troops mired there for a long time. Instead, Olmert and his defense minister settled for tougher sanctions on the coastal strip - even at the cost of raising an international outcry...