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...charge of the refs: if Joey Crawford misses that goal-tending call at the end of a Lakers game or sends Kobe to the showers early, all of Los Angeles will be calling for his head. The refs need more than a leader with an impressive résumé, and Johnson knows it. "I told the referees that our challenge here is winning the respect and trust of our customers," he says. "I want to perform our way out of this...
...Facebook became the poster child for the social-network generation, LinkedIn has always been the tortoise in this race. I think of it as the anti-social network. Although every savvy white-collar worker in the U.S. has a LinkedIn account - basically just a page that lists résumé and contact info - most users don't really know what it's good for or what one can "do" there...
When out-of-control federal spending runs smack into sluggish tax revenues, red ink splashes all over Washington. In September, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the deficit this year would be $407 billion, a sum that reflected the $168 billion economic stimulus package approved by President Bush in February and the estimated $188billion spent for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan through 2008. Add to that the $700 billion financial bailout package passed in October, plus another economic stimulus package likely to take shape in the coming months that could cost as much as $175 billion...
...state notified Health Alliance officials last week that it would not reimburse the system for that sum as part of broader state budget cuts of $200 million in Medicaid payments to providers...
...derision, as Minnesota Nice. For Coleman's purposes, being safe and boring seemed especially wise when contrasted with the loud, funny, inexperienced and sometimes offensive Saturday Night Live alumnus he was running against. Franken is very smart, but he's the opposite of boring. And given his résumé, he couldn't exactly sell himself as safe...