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...that he and his wife have taken will eventually make an impression on his critics. And when that happens, the ad hominem attacks will have to change. This should not be too hard on the cartoonists and columnists who love to attack him. All they have to do is shift their focus from Bush’s intelligence to his policies...
Cornell failed to convert the extra-point after Archer’s touchdown, as Harvard junior linebacker Dante Balestracci blocked the attempt. The play marked not only a special teams stop, but a shift in the pace of the game...
...Kennedy School of Government (KSG) without consulting HUNAP’s administrators or the students, according to HUNAP Executive Director Kenneth Pepion. Now falling under the auspices of KSG, the program has to cope with the disorientation and confusion of an unwanted move and a possible shift in its mission...
Strategies vary, but the result is to shift more of the direct costs to employees. This year 9% of large employers, including Ford and Sears, announced that they would scale back health benefits for retired workers. Many employees already pay more for family coverage; one small technology firm recently offered a cash bonus to employees for switching to their spouse's plan. Xerox once tried adjusting its health-care allowance so single workers would get more and those with families a bit less. "After three years, we killed it," says Helen Darling, a former benefits manager for Xerox...
SHEARER: We are really concerned about the potential to shift costs to sicker people. It's one thing for someone who is healthy to get $1,000 and put it in an account that can grow year to year. Great. But that's diverting dollars away from our health-care system to go to healthy people. We thought the health-insurance system was about spreading risk broadly among the healthy and the sick. If these plans start taking off, we will gradually shift to a system with everybody facing much higher deductibles...