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...evidence linking caesareans to malpractice fears was scant -- until a new report in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Scientists analyzed data on 60,490 births at New York hospitals and insurance premiums paid by doctors in various regions. Their finding: the odds of having a caesarean section were three times as great in areas where premiums -- and the frequency of suits -- were high as in regions where malpractice costs are lower. Critics charge that as many as half a million caesareans each year are medically unnecessary...
...left the U.S. prosecutor's office in 1985 to join a private investigation firm, one of his first moves was to help a devious client provoke a criminal probe against a business rival. As a result of the efforts, the rival suffered a crippling IRS raid in 1986 despite scant evidence of wrongdoing. Four years later, the case was quietly closed by the Justice Department without any indictments. Schwartz maintains he did nothing wrong, but the affair raises questions about his standards of conduct...
...Clinton shows scant need to surround himself with yes-men and -women. Panetta has been skeptical about the President-elect's oft promised middle-class tax cut, and Rivlin departs from Clinton orthodoxy with her suggestion that states should run public-works programs. Perhaps this will be a combative Administration after all. (See related story on page...
...result of internal management by HMC and not dependent on anything else. Even an average performance by HMC managers could not help but make it grow at almost geometric rates thanks to the miracle of compound interest. It is precisely here that all the powers that be failed abysmally. Scant attention over the last ten years resulted in its level being perhaps $2.2 billion below where it should be now. Reasonable people may differ as to the exact figures but not as to their magnitude...
...barely out of her teens when they married in 1981, Diana quickly discovered her extraordinary hold on the public. Her residences are London and the limelight. Especially in the past few years, as her two sons have been in school, she has defined her own life and goals with scant reference...