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...passing along that added expense to employers and consumers, one of the primary reasons the sector has rebounded a bit on Wall Street. But as Merrill Lynch senior analyst Roberta Goodman points out, "that's like running up the down escalator--the trend is against you." And even though Donaldson produced better-than-expected earnings of $184 million on sales of $7.9 billion for the first quarter, Aetna's profit margins have remained in the sick bay, at around 3%, which lags its competitors...
...testing available to those convicted before its widespread use. At the moment, only two states, New York and Illinois, insist on giving inmates on death row access to the new technology. Why the shift? Part of it may be the legacy of the country's lower crime rate--even though murder stats have registered a slight uptick in a few major cities (see box). The flurry of sentences overturned on the basis of DNA evidence is also driving public opinion. Such genetic fingerprints have led to the freeing of 72 inmates, including eight convicted of capital crimes. Other factors include...
...this day, though, Donaldson, a founder of the investment firm Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and a former chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, was out to present Aetna's new bedside manner. "In response to a real market need, we heartily embraced managed care," he told the crowd. "But there was a price, in terms of too many restrictions and too much process that have grown increasingly unpopular. There are those who say the pendulum has swung too far. I agree...
...entire generation hitting the back nine and turning the world over to those who are younger, faster, fitter, more ambitious. (Even the most commonly used number--the 76 million born in the boom--is a gross underestimate: add 8 million immigrant boomers to the total.) For the present purposes, though, we're going to focus on the leading edge of the boom, those people born between 1946 and 1957 who made it to their teens before the '60s ended. We know self-indulgence better than our younger siblings do, so we're going to feel what's happening next that...
...light on Ronald G. Mock, a picaresque Texas public defender who has a wing of the state's death row named after him. The portrait is flattering neither to Mock nor Bush's courts. A similar Tribune investigation prompted Gov. George Ryan's moratorium on executions in Illinois - but though Gov. Bush made a calculated sidestep two weeks ago with his first-ever 30-day stay of execution, for Ricky Nolen McGinn, he seems likelier to stand by his state and hope for the best...