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...patients who occupy the nation's 350,000 beds for the elderly, and uses its clout to drive down prices and regulate caregivers. It's not as if regulators aren't trying to address the amount of paperwork. The DTI says that a flat-rate vat scheme, introduced last year, has cut red tape for 700,000 small businesses. It also notes that before any regulations are introduced, studies are done to assess the effect they might have on small business. But others remain unconvinced. "There is this emphasis on a paper trail," says a spokesman...
Almost every airline and hotel chain touts a loyalty card. Taking that concept a giant step forward, Thailand's Prime Minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, is offering jet-setters memberships in a card scheme whose benefits can be enjoyed across the entire country. Last month, Thaksin welcomed 80 high-flying businessmen as inaugural members of the Thailand Elite Privilege Club. For a one-off lifetime fee of $25,000, the millionaires were each presented with a Thailand Elite card entitling them to discounts on Thai Airways and at Thailand's best hotels, free golf at a slew of courses, free spa treatments...
Almost every airline and hotel chain touts a loyalty card. Taking that concept a giant step forward, Thailand's Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra is offering jet-setters memberships in a card scheme where benefits can be had across the entire country...
Harvard had allowed just three treys until that point, despite an ineffective man-to-man defensive scheme in the first half that allowed Northeastern several open looks and two of those three-point field goals...
...right on time, The Game went on to its inevitable conclusion. And at this point, we can only guess who was responsible for the half-baked scheme, but it has Eli painted all over it. Clearly, the failed display—like a botched college application for admission—sprang from a feeble mind. And though Harvard has its eccentrics, Yale has made being pathologically desperate an art. Indeed, a centuries-old inferiority complex pervades the daily existence of the Yalie, a fascinating iteration of humanity that combines decently high SAT scores with an irrational penchant for mediocrity...