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...their number (Jeffrey Bihr) ignoring a patient while reading what seems to be a novel that tells the story of Lear and cackling at the gruesome bits. But the scene evokes the actual emotional distance between dying patients and the medical professionals attending them. If Lear (Tom Hewitt) is tumbled into a laundry cart, many another patient has felt similarly objectified...
...glamour and pay, while the other does most of the grunt work. Last month the Poynter Institute for Media Studies in St. Petersburg, Fla., brought the two sides together to discuss press credibility. There were a few sharp words. Miffed at the cracks about TV entertainment, Don Hewitt, producer of CBS's 60 Minutes, wondered about "all that junk"--advice columns, features, horoscopes--in newspapers. Eugene Patterson, a veteran newspaper editor who is chairman of the institute, phrased the charge against the tube a little differently from Black: through television, "the public got a look at us and didn...
...Republican Senator David Durenberger from Minnesota helped establish the youth-advocacy group AGE (Americans for Generational Equity) to advance the claims of the young and counterbalance the powerful gray lobby. "The AARP is almost totally focused on the well being of its clients," says AGE Executive Director Paul Hewitt, "but they are going to have to address ways to avoid putting unbearable burdens on the baby boomers' children." Other youth advocates in Congress are also sharpening their blades. John Porter, Republican Representative from Illinois, for example, calls the budget deficit an exercise in "fiscal child abuse...
While 401(k) plans have been around since 1978, they have caught fire only in the past few years. According to Hewitt Associates, a benefits-consulting firm, about 90% of all firms with 1,000 or more employees now provide 401(k) plans, up from 39% in 1983. In that year less than 40% of all employees eligible to make 401(k) contributions did so. Now at least two-thirds do. Greg Cole, general manager of Lips Propellers in Oakland, contributed $6,000 to his 401(k) plan last year. Says he: "I don't think there's a better...
...guaranteed in a hostile takeover. Now, more and more firms are offering similar, if more modest, payoffs to their rank and file who might lose their jobs in a takeover. Dubbed "tin parachutes," the payments sometimes reach 250% of an employee's annual salary. Webb Bassick, a partner at Hewitt Associates, a consulting firm, estimates that as many as 15% of all large public companies have such packages. Among them are Mobil, America West Airlines and Diamond Shamrock, an oil conglomerate. Says Bassick: "It's refreshing to see companies looking at their moral obligation to employees" -- and countering corporate raiders...