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...hubris may have cost him his empire. Amid signs of growing trouble at Columbia, he continued to pursue business as usual. In fact, the business was going badly askew. The problems worsened in March when agents descended on Columbia hospitals in El Paso, scooping up medical files by the truckload. Among other things, the feds sought evidence that Columbia, which treats some 125,000 patients a day, had overcharged Medicare by millions of dollars. Two weeks ago, federal agents seized documents from 31 Columbia locations in six states (Florida, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas and Utah). By last week, agencies...
...Motor Carrier Act of 1980 defined the industry's road to deregulation. Since then, the number of truckload haulers such as Bell has multiplied about threefold, to nearly 60,000. The act also unleashed such new rivals as United Parcel Service to take away customers from the complacent. "If you look at the list of the 100 biggest companies in the business in 1979 before deregulation, today there are only nine or 10 left," says Thomas J. Donohue, president and CEO of the American Trucking Association...
...industry where monkeys throwing darts do better than paid professionals, it's not clear that they couldn't get the same performance with a truckload of bananas," Purdy said...
...meanwhile, learned over the summer that top seniors Ian Carswell and Killian Lonergan won't come back in 1996, which leaves the Crimson men with a truckload of questions...
...meanwhile, learned over the summer that top seniors Ian Carswell and Killian Lonergan won't come back in 1996, which leaves the Crimson men with a truckload of questions...