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During their campaign, Petersen and Sundquist emphasized a return to student advocacy. Their slogan, “It’s about students,” reflected a shift away from UC restructuring, the overarching theme of last year's election...
From that time, things have changed dramatically. Namely, more people are waiting longer to have their first child. Renfrew, a new mother, is acutely aware of this shift. "You see these women now, 38, having their first child, and they're successful, and they've got the money to spend, and they know what they like, and they want their children to be within that fashionable thing as well." And that means they're willing to shell out $150 for a cashmere baby sweater...
...decision to be made lightly. The movement to make ultrasounds more available reflects the belief that women who see an image, watch a heart beat, are much less likely to go through with an abortion. More than 20 years ago, the video The Silent Scream helped to shift the public focus from the horror stories of women who had suffered back-alley abortions to the horror movie of a fetus undergoing...
...shift of patients can be devastating. Regionally owned Lincoln General Hospital in Ruston, La., lost about $2.5 million in business a year to imaging centers and an ASC, but was managing to stay afloat, according to CEO Tom Stone. Then, in 2003, the 40 physicians who ran the ASC opened the Green Clinic Surgical Hospital. Lincoln's inpatient and ambulatory surgeries halved, and by 2005 the hospital was $8 million in the red. "They've gone beyond cherry-picking," says Stone. "They've removed virtually everything they could take out of this facility." He is selling the hospital...
...worked together to shape the country’s various perceptions of the conflict. This past week, in the wake of a decisive electoral defeat and the removal of Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, the beleaguered president took another blow as a few major news organizations began to shift their description of the conflict to “civil...