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By Andy Stonehouse |
April 2, 2012
High management costs and lower-than-expected returns are causing some public pension funds to reconsider their investments in private equity and hedge funds.
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By Michael Hill |
March 15, 2012
In less than a week this month, the stomach-turning epithet for ammonia-treated ground beef filler suddenly became a potent rallying cry by activists fighting to ban the product from supermarket shelves and school lunch trays. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is set to announce Thursday it will offer schools choice...
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By Linda A. Johnson |
December 1, 2011
Three prominent senators are demanding that drugmaker Pfizer Inc. produce documents about its deals with insurers to get them to cover its cholesterol blockbuster Lipitor, rather than two generic versions just hitting drugstores.
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By DAVID KLEPPER,Associated Press |
October 31, 2011
In 10 months in office, Gov. Lincoln Chafee has managed to anger an impressive assortment of constituencies: business leaders and organized labor, medical marijuana advocates and critics of illegal immigration.
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By Larry Neumeister, Associated Press |
October 27, 2011
Hundreds of Long Island Rail Road employees may have cheated their way to big pensions through a $1 billion fraud by paying off doctors to say they were unable to work, authorities said Thursday as they revealed that some supposedly disabled retirees were spotted regularly playing tennis and golf, shoveling...
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By James E. Green |
May 20, 2011
SPDs, mac & cheese and the top health care reform stories this week.
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By Sharon Alt |
April 1, 2010
Dressing in costume was never in the job description. but Benefits attorney John Hickman takes his role seriously. and he likes it when people laugh at him.
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By Marty Traynor |
February 1, 2010
By the time you read this, the question, "What will they do in Washington (with health care)?"
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By Denis Storey |
January 22, 2010
| Storey Lines
So, I had this whole top 10 list, end-of-the-year, thing planned for my last post of 2009, but you know what they say about the best-laid plans...
