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...arguments are of cost effectiveness and the inexorable consolidation that comes with our culture. Still, there is melancholy when a friend moves on. A press is, well, guardian and watchdog and historian, the builder of pride and the maker of dignity and meaning in small places. In the little towns in the heart of our country, somebody usually arrived with a press and some typecases even before the churches and schools were built, certainly before a Civil War cannon was installed in front of the courthouse...
...Scott, a lawyer by training, the abrupt departure marks the end of a wunderkind career as the health-care industry's most ambitious--and controversial--empire builder. A headstrong, self-centered manager--"He regards anyone who is not totally for him as the enemy," says an insider--Scott has always been a man in a hurry. In 1987 he and Richard Rainwater, a Fort Worth, Texas, billionaire, each invested $125,000 in a pair of struggling hospitals in El Paso, Texas. That became the seed for Columbia's present holdings of 1,062 hospitals, outpatient surgical centers and home-health...
...Lexington. He compared the situation in Boston to that of eight years ago at Kentucky and said he again would again try to "build a program in shambles up to the championship level." In Pitino, the Celtics have landed a marquee name, a local New England hero and master builder who by turns has led Providence College, the New York Knicks, and the Kentucky Wildcats out of their respective basketball basements. The once-dynastic Celtics, 15-67 last year under M.L. Carr, need those talents badly. Pittino's first priority will be to keep Celtics legend Larry Bird in town...
...players said the trip was successful because of both increasing confidence in their own ability and a slightly easier schedule than in the past. Passarella also suggested that the Blue-Gray Classic in Alabama two weeks ago was ago was an added experience-builder...
...Tanners were beneficiaries of a feeding frenzy at Boeing that has hardly abated since orders for models from 737s to 777s took off last year. The world's No. 1 builder of jetliners, which agreed in December to acquire McDonnell Douglas for $13 billion, added skilled workers last year at a rate that peaked at 500 a week (average salary for engineers: $53,900 a year). So hungry is Boeing for workers that it solicits resumes in cyberspace (address: www.boeing.com and has lured 19,000 prospects that...