Word: lewine
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...instance. "I've had auto executives say to me, ?We're health-care companies that happen to make cars,'" says Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon. As it happens, Wyden has put an elegant and entirely radical health-care plan on the table. According to an independent assessment by the Lewin Group, a nonpartisan health-care consulting firm, it would save $1.48 trillion over the next 10 years...
...cost of care and nonsurgical treatments at lower rates, sometimes below cost. Hospitals make up the losses--and those from treating the uninsured--largely with profits from surgeries. They also hike the prices they charge insurers and employers, who give hospitals a 22% margin, according to researchers at the Lewin Group, a consultancy, helping cover overall losses of 5% or more from Medicare and Medicaid. That comes back to the rest of us as higher insurance premiums, making health care all the more costly to employers...
...feel that Harvard is ahead of the curve with benefits for working parents,” said Paige Lewin, the Associate Director of Community Programs at Harvard and mother of a 16-month-old son. “Before coming to Harvard, I worked in corporate environments for eight years, and each of the companies I worked for didn’t come close to offering the kind of benefits that Harvard does,” she said...
...said I hoped they would use Chinese actors in the leading parts," she recalled, "to which he replied that this was impossible because of the American star system." Wong, who had just turned 30, tested several times for O-lan, meeting with skepticism and animosity. The skeptic was Albert Lewin, the MGM producer in charge of casting the film. After a screen test, he wrote an evaluation expressing "a little disappointed as to looks. Does not seem beautiful enough to make Wang's infatuation convincing; however, deserves consideration." She also tested for the role of Wang's second, younger wife...
...Lewin and MGM were unlikely to hire any Chinese-Americans for major roles. "In his reports on ... other Chinese actors," Hodges writes, "Lewin consistently argued that, despite their ethnicity, they did not fit his conception of what Chinese people looked like." What were they supposed to look like? Warner Oland? No, not a Dane like Oland - Austrians! Paul Muni played Wang, Luise Rainer was O-lan and Tilly Losch got the role of Lotus. Wong, Chan, speculates, was "Too beautiful for one part and too old for the other." (Anna May's younger sister Mary Liu Heung Wong...