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...course at Stanford University, and last summer, as he was looking for new examples, he started to consider this: What would the U.S. look like if viewed as a company? Analyzing competitive forces has been routine at business schools ever since Harvard's Michael Porter fleshed out his original model in the 1980s. Grove put U.S. GDP at the center of a Porter-like model and concluded that our reliance on foreign oil (a key supplier for economic growth) poses a strategic threat...
...comfortable examining patients in the bedroom as in the office will soar. Medicare data show a 37% surge to more than 2 million home visits by physicians from 1995 to 2005. That is partly because Medicare changed the rules for reimbursement in 1998, making house calls an attractive model on which to build a practice. The rules were further altered for 2006, allowing doctors who visit patients in assisted-living facilities to bill the same rates as for residential visits. Current proposals before Congress could reduce those reimbursement rates, however, making home visits a less attractive option for doctors...
...Chavez also had some pointed comments on his country's role as the hemisphere's largest oil producer. "Bush wanted Iraq's oil and I believe he wants Venezuela's oil," Chavez said. "But the blame for high oil prices lies in the consumer model of the U.S. Its reckless oil consumption is a form of suicide...
Bass Professor of English and American Literature and Language Louis Menand, one of the instructors of Humanities 10, said yesterday that while the Humanities courses don’t fit exactly into the standard model for core courses, current undergraduates need new core options until a full replacement for the core can be established in the coming years...
...armed extremists who are undermining your democracy by acting as a state within a state. The United Nations has passed a good resolution that has authorized an international force, led by France and Italy, to help you restore Lebanese sovereignty over Lebanese soil. For many years, Lebanon was a model of democracy and pluralism and openness in the region - and it will be again...