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...with politicians angry with the bankers over the subprime fiasco, the heat is rising on the industry's credit-card segment. One of the strongest proposed changes is Levin's provision to limit interest rate increases to no more than seven percentage points above the initial rate. "Too many card issuers engage in very, very severe abuses and outrageous practices. It?s indefensible," says Levin, who arrived at seven, because it is about 50% above many cards' initial interest rate of around...
Growth in home health care may not offset issues in the far larger professional segment, though. U.S. regulations have slashed Medicare payments for imaging services performed outside hospitals. That has pared lucrative sales of new imaging machines in the U.S.--Philips' largest health-care market--as much as 10% last year, according to research by JPMorgan. Still, "Philips probably has the most defensive exposure to the nonhospital imaging market" compared with rivals Siemens and GE, according to Citigroup...
...venture later this month offering similar ad-supported and pay-per-view options. Eros also brokered a deal late last year to upload trailers, movie clips and music videos to YouTube; so far, its clips have been viewed 15 million times. "This showed us that there was a sizeable segment that would lap up ad-supported free content," says senior vice president Manu Kaushish...
...preventing men who have had sex with men from donating is now nothing but discrimination against homosexual males. The Red Cross regularly faces difficulty collecting enough blood to meet demand, and allowing as many people to donate as possible is in everyone’s best interest. Disqualifying this segment of the population helps no one. If the FDA is concerned about disease transmission through blood donations—which it rightly should be—it would do better to rephrase its questionnaire. Currently, the screening fails to ask about sexual behaviors such as unprotected sex and heterosexual anal...
...thumpings he took in California and Massachusetts, the women's vote is clearly the key. Obama ran even with Clinton among women in Missouri, probably for two reasons. He has decisively won the tug-of-war over the votes of black women. But where African-Americans comprised a small segment of the vote, as they did in California and Massachusetts, this didn't help him much. He also had the vigorous support of Missouri's leading Democratic women - Sen. Claire McCaskill and former Sen. Jean Carnahan - who appeared together in radio and television ads for Obama...