Word: sickest
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...first?" routine, the coalition agreement unveiled last week by German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and Green partner Joschka Fischer seems confused about basic issues, and destined to end where it began. But economists aren't laughing, because the E.U.'s biggest economy is also among its sickest: 3.94 million unemployed workers are draining government coffers, the GDP will grow only .5-.75% this year and the budget deficit will bust the E.U.'s 3% limit. Business leaders blame high taxes, expensive welfare programs and rigid labor laws, but the government seems to have learned nothing. "The [plan's] only...
...Find the sickest company you can, and the odds are good that Texas Pacific wants a hand in healing it--in return for a big ownership stake. After 9/11, few other investors would touch the airlines, which have lost two-thirds of their value in the past year. But ever since the Continental deal--which brought Bonderman and his partners 10 times their original investment--Texas Pacific has made a profitable habit of picking up airlines so far down on their luck that nobody wants them. "We're contrarian by nature," says co-founder Jim Coulter. "On many...
...waters along America's coastline may look inviting, but don't be fooled. In a new report, the EPA finds that 34% of the nation's coastal waters have such serious ecological problems that they cannot support aquatic life or even basic human activities, like fishing. Among the sickest seas: the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Lakes...
LUNG REDUX A highly promoted type of surgery for emphysema that removes up to 30% of the lung so that healthier parts can expand shows little benefit and a high risk of death for the sickest patients. Results were released early to keep similar patients out of the O.R. Still, proponents insist, the operation works. --By Amanda Bower...
Since HMOs have done such a sorry job of managing care for healthy folks, how in the world are they ever going to do it for the sickest Americans? That's the vexing question facing health insurers and employers as they try to deal with the growing ranks of the chronically ill--a number that is expected to double, to close to 180 million, in the next few decades...