Word: dealing
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...head of the nation's largest, most reviled managed-care provider, currently serving 19 million customers, this was a genuine peace offering. If Donaldson has his way, it won't be the last; he's already struck a deal with the Texas attorney general making similar concessions. Since taking over a few months ago from Richard Huber, the combative CEO who was forced out, Donaldson has been trying his best to mend the HMO giant's sickly relations with doctors and members, who view it as putting profits ahead of patients...
...wouldn't know that, of course, by looking at the company's balance sheet, which makes Donaldson's job all the more challenging. Last week, just as he was nursing a deal to sell Aetna's financial-services and international units to Dutch firm ING Group for as much as $9 billion, Aetna was being sued for taking its sweet time paying bills to a number of New York hospitals. (Aetna says it is hopeful they can resolve the issue through negotiations.) There are also restless shareholders, who watched the stock fall nearly 60% in the past year before...
Whether or not the Fang deal is blocked, it's the worst of times for Examiner employees. "Boy, have our failings been shoved in our face lately," wrote Examiner columnist Rob Morse after spending three days in the courtroom listening to embarrassing revelations like the horse trading with Brown. "The San Francisco Examiner is dying, and it can't even die with dignity." William Randolph Hearst, who once dubbed his paper "the monarch of the dailies," would probably agree...
...parts of this prospective deal that are not anachronistic are, in fact, detrimental to American security. One of the reasons the development of an effective missile defense has been so slow and costly is that the ABM treaty prevents us from testing the most promising technologies, such as sea-based and space-based weapons. Even today, we cannot test a high-speed interceptor against any incoming missile traveling faster than 5 km per SEC. because the Russians are afraid it might be effective against their ICBMs. This is quite crazy. It means that because of a cold war relic...
...proxy war in Lebanon, Assad opened negotiations first in 1994, and then again last year, in the hope of resolving the issue rather than leaving it to an heir whose grip on power would be a lot more tenuous. The U.S.-brokered talks, however, failed to produce a deal that even Assad could sell the Syrians, and it may be years before the winner of the coming power struggle is able to command sufficient political authority to deliver peace with Israel...