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...what both parties really want is a deal, it is not difficult to find one in what is already on the table. Both Clinton and the Republicans would give patients new outside avenues for appeal when their health plans deny them care, more information to help them select doctors, and assurances that they won't be stuck with the bill when the chest pains that send them to the emergency room turn out to be indigestion. Women are guaranteed the right to see a gynecologist; doctors, the right to advise their patients when expensive new procedures are better than...
Reardon said the committee tries to select a group of candidates with diverse talents, but he was hesitant to use the word "quota...
Surprisingly, though, many employers are not yet exploring new ways of finding help. Take the 300 financial, high-tech, manufacturing and management-consulting firms surveyed by Select Appointments North America, a company based in Woburn, Mass., that supplies workers to many industries. Four-fifths of the firms thought they could increase sales if they could find as many skilled workers as they wanted; 10% believed they could double revenues. Yet fewer than a third plan new training programs, and only 14% advertise on the Internet. "The skill gap is causing a lot of the companies to lose...
...young, aspiring fund manager's dream. Early this month, mutual-fund giant Fidelity reached into obscurity and fingered Matthew Grech, 28, a semiconductor analyst, to run its faltering, $2 billion Select Electronics mutual fund. Bull-market madness? Perhaps. But if it is, Fidelity is not alone. With record amounts of capital flowing in ($30 billion just last month), mutual-fund firms are hunting for fresh talent in novel places--not quite kindergarten, but not very far removed from school...
About 1,800 of the students live in Harvard housing, with all the students in the Secondary School Program, for select high school students, living in first-year housing, Queen said...