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...follow-through since then has won praise from health officials both at the WHO and in developed countries like the U.S. As of Friday, the country had begun setting up reliable testing labs; and of the first 776 suspected cases they'd analyzed (there are about 1,500 total), 358 were confirmed as swine flu, with 16 deaths confirmed for now specifically from the virus, almost half in Mexico City...
...seniors in the Class of 2008, 688 students used OCR, or about 45 percent of the entire class. These students submitted 15,816 applications in total. Almost half of the students who applied to jobs using the e-recruiting program accepted job offers, meaning that just over 20 percent of the entire graduating class ended up accepting job offers through OCR. OCR is unquestionably ubiquitous. It provides a large number of jobs to undergraduates and attracts many more applicants than there are positions available...
...networks to support voice than to retrofit telephone networks for video and high-speed Internet. The sharp decline Bell Canada has sustained in its core fixed-line business is mirrored in telcos around the world. In the U.S., cable companies added 4.9 million voice subscribers in 2008, bringing their total to 20 million. By contrast, AT&T, Verizon and Qwest lost 10.9 million voice customers last year...
...vehicle and pay our credit card in full each month. Where is the problem? Health care is simply out of control. I was taken to the emergency room a few weeks ago. Ambulance bill: $959. Hospital bill: $13,830. Follow-up with a personal physician and specialist: $463. Total: $15,252 for a six-hour, non-life-threatening situation that was diagnosed incorrectly in the emergency room. No wonder the country is in trouble. Frugality cannot cure this type of debt, and common situations like this one cannot be ignored. Jean Dennis, WESTMINSTER, COLO...
...Congressional Budget Office has estimated that fully counting employer-provided health benefits as taxable income could bring as much as $246 billion a year into federal coffers. But the politics of taxing something that workers now believe they get for free would be treacherous. More likely than a total elimination of the favorable tax treatment is the prospect of putting some kind of limit on that deduction - forcing workers to pay taxes, for instance, if their employer offers a particularly lavish plan. Or lawmakers may come at it another way, curbing the tax deduction that companies can take for offering...