Word: unite
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...generally been good. I like my primary care physician a lot, and I usually receive decent treatment from other aspects of the organization. But last week, suffering from a cold so bad I could barely think straight, I walked through the doors of the after-hours urgent-care unit and into a bureaucratic nightmare funnier and more disturbing than any Saturday Night Live sketch I have seen in the past year...
...resemblance to First Commerce's main piece of merchandise, DeVoe-Holbein International. It too boasted technology that could squeeze minerals from water, and one of the same scientists was involved: Irving W. DeVoe, a Canadian professor who had co-founded DeVoe-Holbein. In the early 1990s, a Hariston unit announced a project to extract minerals from mining waters in Butte, Montana, and many local people who believed in the project bought stock. The scheme came to naught, as did much of the money invested. (In its current incarnation, Hariston is a computer software company...
...bottoms-up management might suggest. The company immediately begins a process that Ray Loewen calls "normalization," or bringing newly acquired homes up to financial expectations. All the comfy perks of a family business--extra cars and dry cleaning--suddenly disappear. And prices rise. Loewen also institutes its "Third Unit Target Merchandising" system in the casket showroom, which capitalizes on the propensity of survivors to avoid the cheapest two caskets and choose the next one up in price. "It's no different from any other business operating a showroom," says Lawrence Miller, president of Loewen's cemetery division. But often...
...although the team's penalty killing unit has been impressive, allowing only five goals in nine regular-season contests, the power play has consistently been another story--going 2-for-56 on the season and 0 for its last...
...better to guide the consumers of America then our political leaders? We hope they are among the most educated and intelligent Americans: so it only makes sense that they are the wisest in deciphering unit prices, nutritional information and which airline still gives honey-roasted peanuts as the between-meal snack...