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...algorithm that is devised to spread people and their stuff around the plane in an orderly manner. Except that an algorithm has never rushed the gate the moment a flight is called, because if it were to, I'd throw an elbow. Whatever the sequence, loading the overhead bins on a fully booked airliner is like trying to pull one of your socks over your head while someone else whacks you with a sack of flour...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Airline Baggage Charges: It's Customer Abuse | 1/13/2010 | See Source »

...individual and small group market. Insurers who don't operate at or above these thresholds would have to send rebates to customers. (MLRs are generally higher in the large group market because selling and administering one policy for many people at once requires much less overhead than designing, marketing and carrying out policies on an individual basis.) (Read "Health Reform's Senate Win: Did Reid Make It Tougher Than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forcing Insurers to Spend Enough on Health Care | 12/22/2009 | See Source »

Hermione would not approve! At the HPC Xmas party, one VIP guest was overhead using some language that would merit howler. When she called a certain twin (which one? doesn’t matter) a name that rhymes with witch, she showed her true colors as a diva. Seems like the vodka went straight to her underaged head. Good thing her driver wisked her promptly back to Brown...Someone was naughty this past weekend when they got a little too frisky on Santa’s lap, causing Mrs. Claus to get her panties in a twist. Mrs. C. proceeded...

Author: By FM Staff, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Chatter | 12/11/2009 | See Source »

...luxury and fashion industries continue to struggle with sagging retail sales and consumers' diminishing interest in $2,000 It bags, designers are looking for alternative ways to show their wares. And more and more of them are turning to the Internet for a bigger audience and to shrink their overhead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Will Fashion's Biggest Names Kiss the Runway Goodbye? | 12/10/2009 | See Source »

...knew at that moment,” Nauert recalls, “as bats were flying overhead and the stars were coming out, and then he said, ‘Will you marry...

Author: By Alice E. M. Underwood, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Bells for Beaux | 12/7/2009 | See Source »

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