Word: shifting
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From that time, things have changed dramatically. Namely, more people are waiting longer to have their first child. Renfrew, a new mother, is acutely aware of this shift. "You see these women now, 38, having their first child, and they're successful, and they've got the money to spend, and they know what they like, and they want their children to be within that fashionable thing as well." And that means they're willing to shell out $150 for a cashmere baby sweater...
...shift of patients can be devastating. Regionally owned Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston, La., lost about $2.5 million in business a year to imaging centers and an ASC, but was managing to stay afloat, according to CEO Tom Stone. Then, in 2003, the 40 physicians who ran the ASC opened the Green Clinic Surgical Hospital. Lincoln's inpatient and ambulatory surgeries halved, and by 2005 the hospital was $8 million in the red. "They've gone beyond cherry-picking," says Stone. "They've removed virtually everything they could take out of this facility." He is selling the hospital...
...worked together to shape the country’s various perceptions of the conflict. This past week, in the wake of a decisive electoral defeat and the removal of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, the beleaguered president took another blow as a few major news organizations began to shift their description of the conflict to “civil...
...TERM VISION Zaidi says that he brings a vision for long-term change to the UC with a campaign designed to change the nature of the council. “We want to make Harvard’s Promise into a tradition. For us it’s a shift in mind set,” Zaidi says, adding that they hope to change the UC from an organization “locked into a one-year cycle” to one with a sense of long-term vision. Lee also says that...
...Tribune Co., the Boston Globe and the L.A. Times, respectively--rush in to bet on slow-growth newspapers? Perhaps they're aware that 85% of adults either read a paper every week or visit its website. Less pressure from Wall Street may forestall short-term cuts, enabling papers to shift their focus from quarterly earnings toward rethinking the print game. "Newspapers are in a strong position to extend off-line publications online," says Alexia Quadrani, media analyst for Bear Stearns, "and they're still highly profitable...