Word: scarpa
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Think you've got problems choosing a health-care plan? Consider Michael Scarpa, benefits manager for the 13,000 U.S. employees of ABB, the power-and automation-technologies giant based in Zurich, Switzerland. Until recently, as contracts expiredevery May, 20 HMOs in 40 states would send in six-inch-thick binders containing detailed bids for ABB's business. Scarpa, 37, and his staff would spend days plowing through the paperwork. Then Scarpa would often pay a consultant as much as $45,000 to analyze the bids for each contract up for renewal...
...high-tech scooter: Sorry, folks, but unless you can use this device while carrying an armload of groceries and a squirming three-year-old, the Segway's just a guy toy. SANDIE SCARPA Fort Pierce...
...rest of the film Lurie is much too heavy-handed. The prison movies that truly succeed have characters that win us over, and elicit emotional responses naturally. The Last Castle is not the least bit subtle. There seem to be few levels to which Lurie and writer David Scarpa won’t sink in order to wring some emotional response out of the audience. These attempts are not skillful and the result is that many scenes that are supposed to be emotional and touching come off as somewhat comical (one such scene involves an inmate who is required...