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...harmless placebos, they typically involve a lot of interaction between patient and practitioner. By contrast, conventional medicine is often run like a production line that goes all out for speed. Communication with patients is cut back to the point where informed-consent ethics are ignored, clinical standards suffer, and misdiagnosis and mistreatment are commonplace. No wonder patients are dissatisfied and seek help elsewhere. Andrew Smith Reading, England High-Tech Referees Re "Technophobia" [June 26], your article on why high-tech solutions aren't being used to reduce referee errors in football: Football's world governing body...
...School professor who was credited with coining the term globalization in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article; in Belmont, Massachusetts. A provocative teacher and scholar, Levitt wrote eight books on marketing. He contributed 25 articles to the Review, including the influential "Marketing Myopia" in 1960, which argued that companies suffer because executives defined their businesses too narrowly and has sold 850,000 reprints...
...Domestically, the rate rise would be a tiny boon for Japanese savers?the BOJ says a decade of ultra-low interest rates has cost households $1.3 billion in interest income. But the cost of loans for housing and credit cards would inch up, and stocks traditionally suffer when rates rise. Still, after so many years trapped in an economic twilight zone, the Japanese may find such worries almost a pleasure to contemplate. As Tatsushi Shikano, a senior economist at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, says: "It's a sign that things are going back to normal...
...School professor who was credited with coining the term globalization in a 1983 Harvard Business Review article; in Belmont, Mass. A provocative teacher and scholar, Levitt wrote eight books on marketing. He contributed 25 articles to the Review, including the influential "Marketing Myopia" in 1960, which argued that companies suffer because executives define their businesses too narrowly, and has sold 850,000 reprints...
...Even now, after weeks of warnings that North Korea would suffer harsh consequences if it went ahead with a test, the U.S. and its allies may be confronting the reality that there are precious few options to turn those warnings into punishments. The crisis - if that is what it really is - won't necessarily play out as Pyongyang desires. But it has a good chance of getting some of what it wants in a resumption of negotiations over a package of rewards for North Korea in exchanged for it changing its behavior...