Word: less
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...begin publishing again. This is more than just a battle for civil rights: reopening the dissident press will help keep the reform movement--and its leaders--alive. The Participation Front is also hoping to open Iran's opaque judicial system with a bill that will give conservative judges less leeway to lock up reformers on grounds that their democratic ideas contravene Islamic teachings...
...hospitals and doctors are fighting back against deep fee discounts--in some cases dropping out of networks altogether. More people are opting for flexible plans, choosing preferred-provider organizations over HMOs (see sidebar). Says Tom Ferguson, a health-care consultant at William M. Mercer: "There's less incentive for providers to ration care...
...mention plenty of smart, energetic 33-year-olds who are more than eager to step into the shoes of every smart, not-so-energetic 53-year-old--for less money too, and probably with more appropriate new-economy skills. (The guy in the next office who's still having his secretary print out his e-mail must be planning to win the lottery.) Consequently, says Challenger, boomers who haven't reached, and won't reach, the top "are being squeezed from below as well." It's a squeeze that has brought on a psychic shortness of breath: the 1997 National...
...hatched before the Clinton administration turns out the lights? Arafat is under tremendous pressure from Palestinian hard-liners not to compromise and Barak is having to struggle just to hold together his unruly coalition government. Clinton stays publicly optimistic. But his top aides say privately that the odds are less than...
...private company, on the other hand, would provide dozens of more guards for a lot less cost. And no union quibbles would...