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...We paused to catch our breath and look around. Wyoming was gorgeous, bright and blue and white, vast and towering, glowing and shifting with the howling wind....
...feel like a cross between an art gallery and a teenage boy’s fantasy....
...He’s signed up to be the first GoldCare client and is about to move his 750 supermarket workers off Blue Cross Blue Shield as a test before transitioning all 4,000. Strand shows up and orders a steak....
...son before and had flown from California to join him in the Bahamas....
...The cross-examination came just one day after Holmes testified that her former boyfriend and business partner Sunny Balwani had been abusive, including repeated instances of forced sex....
...“He had crates and crates of tapes he would record of himself, just for fun, and I would rummage through them as a kid and listen to all of his songs....
...The waiter brings her steak and my uncompromising cross-section of ruminant, which is framed by an unbuckled belt of crisp fat....
...Multinationals are separately lobbying for revisions to radical proposals on the taxation of cross-border payments between different business units....
...They started as a wannabe country rock band with great hair and sumptuous harmonies. After Hotel California, they lost their touch....
...Anthem Healthcare. Fiat Chrysler....
...by Anthem Blue Cross”....
...Ms Braly, who runs the biggest US health insurance company by membership, is under pressure because of soaring rate increases at Anthem Blue Cross, a California subsidiary, that were set to take effect next...
...The Obama administration has been incensed by the likes of Anthem Blue Cross, which raised premiums in California by 39 per cent, and has proposed a review board to block rate rises deemed unjustified....
...Blue Cross’s sudden announcement that it will raise premiums in California by up to 39 per cent....
...Three weeks later, when Anthem Blue Cross, the health insurer, announced it was raising premiums on individual policy-holders in California by 39 per cent, Mr Obama had settled on a way ahead....
...“In its timing and political value, the Goldman Sachs case is to financial reform what the Anthem Blue Cross [healthcare insurer] premium rate increases was to healthcare reform in February,” says Bill Galston...
...No longer would they be able to arbitrarily and massively raise premiums like Anthem Blue Cross recently tried to do in California. Those practices would end....
...Stanley Lubman, who lectures at the University of California Berkeley Law School and has studied China for more than 40 years, agrees....
...By acquiring WellChoice, the parent of the powerful Empire Blue Cross Blue Shield brand, WellPoint will be placing itself in direct competition with UnitedHealth in the New York market, which can be exceptionally...
...“They are pretty good about not rubbing it in and we do get treated like peers,” adds Mr Schmitz, who took the post in 2003 after running funds for Illinois and Blue Cross/Blue Shield, the health insurer...
...David Nicholson, chief of the Amelia, Ohio, Police Department, claimed he served four tours in Vietnam and was captured and held for 15 days as a prisoner of war, earning him a Distinguished Service Cross...
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