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Despite the maturity of this tactic, I decided to play "investigative reporter" and discover what's up at the Coop. I wanted answers. Why are sourcebooks so ludicrously overpriced? Why, when other bookstores carry the same books as the Coop, are they often cheaper at the bookstore--even in the same edition as those the Coop carries? For that matter, does the Coop make an extra effort to order the most expensive edition of everything? Rumors float around hinting that Harvard refuses to release book lists to other stores; the word "monopoly" blanches the faces of the multitudes of economics...
These desert detours may not look like much, but they pass through the brand-new Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah--a 1.7 million-acre tract that many consider the most beautiful spot in the U.S. The trails that crisscross it are scars from the latest tactic in one of the region's most bitter land wars...
...next few years, taking traffic away from the big-city hubs and jobs away from the pilots who fly there. American management is pushing the pilots to accept binding arbitration, but that process could take two years and the union calls it a delay tactic. Working now on a contract negotiated when American was in poor financial shape, the pilots haven't had a raise since 1993, and demand an 11-percent raise over four years. Crandall, fearing another downturn in the cyclical airline business, feels that giving too much now may cost the airline dearly later. But a strike...
Those who have gone through the process say that the only good tactic is to be straightforward in approaching people...
...Medicaid patients. Since the Administration proposal guarantees benefits to anyone meeting federal guidelines, while reducing the federal share of the costs, many governors object to being forced to foot the bill for a program the federal government controls. The governors have plenty of experience with that sort of federal tactic. Last year, state and local governments picked up 42 percent of the $159 billion Medicaid bill. Governors, including Bill Clinton when he was governor of Arkansas, favor block grants that leave it to the states to set eligibility and care standards, similar to the approach spelled out in last year...