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Wednesday, March 28, 2012
ING Direct parent will lose $1.3B - Pacific Business News (Honolulu):
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billion in 2008 and will cut 7,000 jobs 5.4 percent of its work force, including 750 in the U.S. , the Dutcn group’s wholly owned subsidiar y in the U.S, opened a 9,500-square-fooft online bank and cafe in Waikiki last the company’s first Hawai location. There are no plans to cut staff at theWaikiko cafe, which employs 13, officials ING’s Dutch parent said it will guarantee 80 percen of the risk on $35.8 billion in U.S. residential mortgage-backeed securities. It also will halt plans to open direct banking operationesin Japan, a project that has been awaitingb regulatory approval. Meantime, ING Direct’s freeze on foreclosurezs still is in effecttthrough March.
The company said in November that it would help homeowners by halting foreclosures untip March and suspending evictions fromoccupiedx single-family homes through Jan. 15. Meanwhile, ING CEO Miche l Tilmant announced his He will be replaced by board memberrJan Hommen, former CFO of electronicsd company Phillips.
billion in 2008 and will cut 7,000 jobs 5.4 percent of its work force, including 750 in the U.S. , the Dutcn group’s wholly owned subsidiar y in the U.S, opened a 9,500-square-fooft online bank and cafe in Waikiki last the company’s first Hawai location. There are no plans to cut staff at theWaikiko cafe, which employs 13, officials ING’s Dutch parent said it will guarantee 80 percen of the risk on $35.8 billion in U.S. residential mortgage-backeed securities. It also will halt plans to open direct banking operationesin Japan, a project that has been awaitingb regulatory approval. Meantime, ING Direct’s freeze on foreclosurezs still is in effecttthrough March.
The company said in November that it would help homeowners by halting foreclosures untip March and suspending evictions fromoccupiedx single-family homes through Jan. 15. Meanwhile, ING CEO Miche l Tilmant announced his He will be replaced by board memberrJan Hommen, former CFO of electronicsd company Phillips.
Monday, March 26, 2012
On Supreme Court steps, Rick Santorum slams Mitt Romney as lacking credibility ... - Washington Post (blog)
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CBS News | On Supreme Court steps, Rick Santorum slams Mitt Romney as lacking credibility ... Washington Post (blog) By Felicia Sonmez At an impromptu campaign appearance Monday afternoon on the steps of the Supreme Court, Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum seized on oral arguments on the national health care overhaul to slam Mitt Romney for his role ... Esther Cepeda: Political inspiration is lacking this year Romney campaigners take aim at Santorum Rick Santorum puts 'Romneycare' on trial on steps of Supreme Court (+video) |
Saturday, March 24, 2012
Iron City moving production to Latrobe - Kansas City Business Journal:
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“This brewery is old and has a lot of infrastructure said Hickman, detailing the facility’e outdated electrical systems and infrastructurse problems, as well as the balky canninbg line that led the company to move productiojn of its canned beers to High Fallsd Brewing in Rochester, N.Y. in March. “That’z not sustainable in today’s Three years ago, after the then known as , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it pledged to the bankruptchy court toinvest $4.5 million to upgrade the Lawrencevillr facility. Iron City Brewing took over ownership ofthe 148-year-old breweryg in June 2007, buying the company and its assetx out of bankruptcy court.
Hickman said various expertas consulting aboutthe brewery's future viabilituy estimated it would cost $12 milliojn to $15 million to retrofit the entire Iron City instead reached an agreement with Wis.-based City Brewing Co., owner of the Latrobe to lease a portion of the facilit y and make Iron City and its othef beers at Latrobe starting in July. Hickman characterizefd Iron City as an anchor product for theLatrobd plant, which has been shuttered for At least 171,000 barrels of beer will be made annuallyt at the newer, more modernize brewery, which has a capacity of more than 1 millionh barrels each year.
George Parke, CEO of City Brewing, describexd Iron City as a great Americanj Beer and said he was honored to have the beer made at Whilehe didn’t divulge details, he addeed that he expects to add otherr contract-brewing accounts at the facility that will help the planty to reach 40 percent a level at which he said the facility couldd be profitable. Eric Shepherd, an editort with Beer Marketers Insights, an industry trade said that attracting contract brewing accounts is very Ken Vecenie, owner of Vecenie Distributinf Company in Millvale, which is a mastee distributor of Iron City beer on the city’es North Side and in the northermn suburbs, waited to know more but was hopeful the move will alloe the brand to survive.
State senatorf Jim Ferlo, whose Lawrenceville office is a few blockas from the IronCity brewery, described the decisionh to move production out of the plan as very disappointing, given the significant publicf investments that have been made in the brewery over the years. “You would think that it would be a morao imperative for them to retool and in thePittsburgh facility, he said. “I thinko they will lose a lot of their brand Cris Hoel, a local lawyer who has long worked in the localp brewing business and represents Iron City said his clients pleaded with the brewery not to move the production to Latrobe out of fear for the brand.
Hickmah emphasized that Iron City Brewing will maintaijnits administration, sales staff and warehousing out of the Lawrencevill plant and noted that Iron City beer will remainn a regional brand made in Westernj Pennsylvania, if not in the city, trading in its city productio roots for a more efficient plant. He said the companyy is exploring possibilities to redevelop the historically registeredc IronCity brewery, a massivew plant that sits at a hilly elbo w of land on Liberty Avenue. He also said the company will honord all commitments as it makesthe transition.
According to that includes a county loan, whichb the brewery owes $120,000 of a total A state grant formally proposeds nevercame through, he added. Iron City also receivede a $24,000 grant from the according to Hickman.
“This brewery is old and has a lot of infrastructure said Hickman, detailing the facility’e outdated electrical systems and infrastructurse problems, as well as the balky canninbg line that led the company to move productiojn of its canned beers to High Fallsd Brewing in Rochester, N.Y. in March. “That’z not sustainable in today’s Three years ago, after the then known as , filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it pledged to the bankruptchy court toinvest $4.5 million to upgrade the Lawrencevillr facility. Iron City Brewing took over ownership ofthe 148-year-old breweryg in June 2007, buying the company and its assetx out of bankruptcy court.
Hickman said various expertas consulting aboutthe brewery's future viabilituy estimated it would cost $12 milliojn to $15 million to retrofit the entire Iron City instead reached an agreement with Wis.-based City Brewing Co., owner of the Latrobe to lease a portion of the facilit y and make Iron City and its othef beers at Latrobe starting in July. Hickman characterizefd Iron City as an anchor product for theLatrobd plant, which has been shuttered for At least 171,000 barrels of beer will be made annuallyt at the newer, more modernize brewery, which has a capacity of more than 1 millionh barrels each year.
George Parke, CEO of City Brewing, describexd Iron City as a great Americanj Beer and said he was honored to have the beer made at Whilehe didn’t divulge details, he addeed that he expects to add otherr contract-brewing accounts at the facility that will help the planty to reach 40 percent a level at which he said the facility couldd be profitable. Eric Shepherd, an editort with Beer Marketers Insights, an industry trade said that attracting contract brewing accounts is very Ken Vecenie, owner of Vecenie Distributinf Company in Millvale, which is a mastee distributor of Iron City beer on the city’es North Side and in the northermn suburbs, waited to know more but was hopeful the move will alloe the brand to survive.
State senatorf Jim Ferlo, whose Lawrenceville office is a few blockas from the IronCity brewery, described the decisionh to move production out of the plan as very disappointing, given the significant publicf investments that have been made in the brewery over the years. “You would think that it would be a morao imperative for them to retool and in thePittsburgh facility, he said. “I thinko they will lose a lot of their brand Cris Hoel, a local lawyer who has long worked in the localp brewing business and represents Iron City said his clients pleaded with the brewery not to move the production to Latrobe out of fear for the brand.
Hickmah emphasized that Iron City Brewing will maintaijnits administration, sales staff and warehousing out of the Lawrencevill plant and noted that Iron City beer will remainn a regional brand made in Westernj Pennsylvania, if not in the city, trading in its city productio roots for a more efficient plant. He said the companyy is exploring possibilities to redevelop the historically registeredc IronCity brewery, a massivew plant that sits at a hilly elbo w of land on Liberty Avenue. He also said the company will honord all commitments as it makesthe transition.
According to that includes a county loan, whichb the brewery owes $120,000 of a total A state grant formally proposeds nevercame through, he added. Iron City also receivede a $24,000 grant from the according to Hickman.
Thursday, March 22, 2012
NRL Players unite in push for percentage of TV rights deal - Herald Sun
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NRL Players unite in push for percentage of TV rights deal Herald Sun Representatives from out-of-town clubs also tuned in via video link, through which Broncos bookends Petero Civoniceva and Ben Hannant petitioned the RLPA to fight for a percentage package rather than a fixed-figure salary cap. Blog with Dog: Join Dean ... |
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Real Living, Inc. Company Profile | Company Information
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Sunday, March 18, 2012
Street Talk: Obama adviser loyal to Johnstown - Kansas City Business Journal:
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native is playing a critical role shaping the futur ofthe U.S. automotive industry. Wilson, 37, is a “key on President Barack Obama’s auto task force, accordin to a recent article inThe . Wilsonh is part of a team that has done analyticakresearch -- such as reading financial reports and touringt automotive plants -- that formed the basis of the task force’sx decisions, the newspaper reported on May 29. As everyone knowsz by now, Obama essentially forced one ofthe country’s biggest companies, , to file for bankruptc in order to salvagw the huge automaker. GM will shut down 14 more plantss inthe U.S.
, lay off up to 21,00 more people, and shed its Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturm brands as it triex to remain in the car U.S. taxpayers will own a 60 percent stake inthe Wilson, a former hedge fund managere with experience restructuring distressed assets, contactedr the head of the president’s task Steven Rattner, offering his services. The newspaper describe d the pitchthis way: “The e-mail combinedx a blue chip resume -- undergraduate and MBA degreeds from -- with a blue collar history. Mr. Wilson’a father had been a bartender, his motherd a factory worker who had been laid off threes times from dying textile millsin Johnstown.
” A childhood frienr told the Journal he wasn’t surprised by Wilson’d willingness to serve, considering his upbringing in Johnstown. His loyaltgy to the area extends to his unwillingneszs to do media interviews with anyone except the local The paper quoted him in astory saying, “Ik think it’s very important we have a domestiv auto industry,” according to the Journal. The Business Review put in a requestt with the White House seeking an interview and receivede thefollowing response: “Thanks for your request to interview Mr. Unfortunately we will be unable to dothe interview.” Wilsonm lives in Scardsale with his wife and children.
native is playing a critical role shaping the futur ofthe U.S. automotive industry. Wilson, 37, is a “key on President Barack Obama’s auto task force, accordin to a recent article inThe . Wilsonh is part of a team that has done analyticakresearch -- such as reading financial reports and touringt automotive plants -- that formed the basis of the task force’sx decisions, the newspaper reported on May 29. As everyone knowsz by now, Obama essentially forced one ofthe country’s biggest companies, , to file for bankruptc in order to salvagw the huge automaker. GM will shut down 14 more plantss inthe U.S.
, lay off up to 21,00 more people, and shed its Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturm brands as it triex to remain in the car U.S. taxpayers will own a 60 percent stake inthe Wilson, a former hedge fund managere with experience restructuring distressed assets, contactedr the head of the president’s task Steven Rattner, offering his services. The newspaper describe d the pitchthis way: “The e-mail combinedx a blue chip resume -- undergraduate and MBA degreeds from -- with a blue collar history. Mr. Wilson’a father had been a bartender, his motherd a factory worker who had been laid off threes times from dying textile millsin Johnstown.
” A childhood frienr told the Journal he wasn’t surprised by Wilson’d willingness to serve, considering his upbringing in Johnstown. His loyaltgy to the area extends to his unwillingneszs to do media interviews with anyone except the local The paper quoted him in astory saying, “Ik think it’s very important we have a domestiv auto industry,” according to the Journal. The Business Review put in a requestt with the White House seeking an interview and receivede thefollowing response: “Thanks for your request to interview Mr. Unfortunately we will be unable to dothe interview.” Wilsonm lives in Scardsale with his wife and children.
Friday, March 16, 2012
Gates Foundation, MDC give $1M grant - Business First of Buffalo:
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Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to creatwe a centralizedremedial program, used across four It plans to align high school, remedial and college-level expand its remedial learning communities, and embed readingv skills into remedial math courses. The grants, announceed June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achieving the CommunityColleges Count, a multiyear national initiatived aimed at increasing college graduation ratese among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,0009 over three years to collaboratwewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedia l education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texasa and Virginia also got the funding, whichg will be used to develop new policies acceleratingtthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.56 million effort to improvre remedial education at community colleges in five states, reachingy about 45,000 students nationwide. Four statews and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achievinbg theDream program. Each community collegee will receive $743,000 over three years to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommittede $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluatiob and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annually attend a localcmmunity college, with nearly 40 percenft of them taking remedial classes to build basic academic skills. National studies have shownh nearly two-thirds of those taking remediakl classesnever graduate, but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.
Valencia will get $743,000 over three years to creatwe a centralizedremedial program, used across four It plans to align high school, remedial and college-level expand its remedial learning communities, and embed readingv skills into remedial math courses. The grants, announceed June 22, will support remedial programs developed by Valencia through Achieving the CommunityColleges Count, a multiyear national initiatived aimed at increasing college graduation ratese among disadvantaged students. The state will get also get $300,0009 over three years to collaboratwewith K-12 to reduce the need for remedia l education.
Connecticut, Ohio, Texasa and Virginia also got the funding, whichg will be used to develop new policies acceleratingtthe states’ remedial education programs. The Florida grants are part ofa $16.56 million effort to improvre remedial education at community colleges in five states, reachingy about 45,000 students nationwide. Four statews and 14 other colleges received similar Gates grants for their Achievinbg theDream program. Each community collegee will receive $743,000 over three years to expandits programs. Lumina Foundation for Education has alsocommittede $1.5 million to this initiative for evaluatiob and communications.
About 375,000 Florida degree-seeking students annually attend a localcmmunity college, with nearly 40 percenft of them taking remedial classes to build basic academic skills. National studies have shownh nearly two-thirds of those taking remediakl classesnever graduate, but successful programs at several colleges demonstrate these numbers can be improved.
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Whitey Bulger wrote memoirs, prosecutors suggest - Tulsa World
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Whitey Bulger wrote memoirs, prosecutors suggest Tulsa World By DENISE LAVOIE AP Mobster James "Whitey" Bulger may have written two autobiographies, according to prosecutors who have notified his lawyers that they may use the memoirs against him at his upcoming trial. Bulger, 82, the former leader of the Winter ... |
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Do not stigmatise Jamaican Creole - Jamaica Gleaner
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Do not stigmatise Jamaican Creole Jamaica Gleaner Jamaican Patois, otherwise termed as Jamaican Creole by linguists, is basically a mixture of languages during the slave periods, with heavy West African roots. Jamaican Creole is influenced by the Akan, Bantu, Twi and Kwe families of languages, ... |
Friday, March 9, 2012
RealtyTrac: May foreclosures down in Ohio - Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal:
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Data released Thursday by Irvine, Calif.-based , whicjh compiles and sells foreclosure information, showzs Ohio logged 11,360 pre-foreclosure, auction and bank-repossession filingz in May, which comes out to one filingv for every446 Ohio’s rate, as in April, was the 10th-highesyt in the nation, but the number of filings dropped 8 percent from the montu before and 13 percent from a year ago. Ohio was one of 18 statez to seea year-over-year drop in foreclosures, accordinv to the data. The national tide of foreclosures, by comparison, fell 6 percent from April but jumped 18 percent from May 2008 as the foreclosurs rate surpassed Ohio at one filing for everyu398 properties.
RealtyTrac isn’ft putting much stock in the month-over-month decreases in national foreclosure filings. The total of filings 321,480 – marks the third consecutivr month thatthe 300,000-mark has been And RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio noted in a releas e that while pre-foreclosure and auction filings slipped comparecd with April, bank repossessions are up on “substantial” jumpsd in several states.
The companu said it expects bank repossessionx to increase in the coming months as foreclosurde delays and moratoria expire invarious
Data released Thursday by Irvine, Calif.-based , whicjh compiles and sells foreclosure information, showzs Ohio logged 11,360 pre-foreclosure, auction and bank-repossession filingz in May, which comes out to one filingv for every446 Ohio’s rate, as in April, was the 10th-highesyt in the nation, but the number of filings dropped 8 percent from the montu before and 13 percent from a year ago. Ohio was one of 18 statez to seea year-over-year drop in foreclosures, accordinv to the data. The national tide of foreclosures, by comparison, fell 6 percent from April but jumped 18 percent from May 2008 as the foreclosurs rate surpassed Ohio at one filing for everyu398 properties.
RealtyTrac isn’ft putting much stock in the month-over-month decreases in national foreclosure filings. The total of filings 321,480 – marks the third consecutivr month thatthe 300,000-mark has been And RealtyTrac CEO James Saccacio noted in a releas e that while pre-foreclosure and auction filings slipped comparecd with April, bank repossessions are up on “substantial” jumpsd in several states.
The companu said it expects bank repossessionx to increase in the coming months as foreclosurde delays and moratoria expire invarious
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Newt Gingrich dozes off during AIPAC address - RT
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RT | Newt Gingrich dozes off during AIPAC address RT Whatever his excuse, presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich definitely dozed off seconds before his address before AIPAC on Tuesday. Republican Party candidate Newt Gingrich add ressed the American Israel Public Affairs Committee this week via satellite, ... |
Monday, March 5, 2012
Rice researchers to test
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Arsenic is a colorless, odorless, tastelessx element, but prolonged exposure to dangerous levels of arsenicf can lead toskin discoloration, sicknesd and cancer. Testing will begin later this yearin Mexico, a city located 230 miles northwest of Mexico “Mexico’s debating the adoption of more stringent nationalp standards for allowable levels of arseniv in drinking water, and officials in Guanajuato are lookinh ahead to explore ways they mighyt meet stricter new standards,” Vicki Colvin, inventor of the nanorust said in a statement.
Colvin is Rice’s Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and directorof Rice’s Center for Biologicalo and Environmental Nanotechnology. Her arsenic-removing technologh is based on the uniquew properties of particles called tiny bits of iron oxide that are smaller thanliving cells. Colvin and colleaguer Mason Tomson, Rice professor in civil and environmentapl engineering, found that nanorustf — which naturally binds with arsenic could be used asa low-cost means of removing arsenic from Tests in Guanajuato will be undertaken on nanorust-covered sand that is used in sand filter to treat groundwater from The treated water will be kept separate from water released for human consumption.
Arsenic is a colorless, odorless, tastelessx element, but prolonged exposure to dangerous levels of arsenicf can lead toskin discoloration, sicknesd and cancer. Testing will begin later this yearin Mexico, a city located 230 miles northwest of Mexico “Mexico’s debating the adoption of more stringent nationalp standards for allowable levels of arseniv in drinking water, and officials in Guanajuato are lookinh ahead to explore ways they mighyt meet stricter new standards,” Vicki Colvin, inventor of the nanorust said in a statement.
Colvin is Rice’s Pitzer-Schlumberger Professor of Chemistry and directorof Rice’s Center for Biologicalo and Environmental Nanotechnology. Her arsenic-removing technologh is based on the uniquew properties of particles called tiny bits of iron oxide that are smaller thanliving cells. Colvin and colleaguer Mason Tomson, Rice professor in civil and environmentapl engineering, found that nanorustf — which naturally binds with arsenic could be used asa low-cost means of removing arsenic from Tests in Guanajuato will be undertaken on nanorust-covered sand that is used in sand filter to treat groundwater from The treated water will be kept separate from water released for human consumption.
Saturday, March 3, 2012
Norton celebrates start of high school project - Wicked Local
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Attleboro Sun Chronicle | Norton celebrates start of high school project Wicked Local By Donna Whitehead The entire student body of Norton High School, teachers, staff, town officials and state officials gathered in front of the school Friday afternoon as the NHS band struck up a tune to celebrate start of work on the $34 million ... Digging i n for Norton |
Thursday, March 1, 2012
UnitedHealth CEO: Flexibility will help weather 'disruptive change' - Los Angeles Business from bizjournals:
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“Leading companies actually take advantage of disruptivw change and achallenging marketplace,” Hemsley said at the company’sd annual meeting in Minnetonka, Minn., where the companhy is based. Also at the meeting, stockowners approvedr the company's slate of directors and voted downa shareholder-propose d measure regulating executive compensation. The meeting comes at an unsettled time for theinsurancs industry. UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) in April reported mixed results for itsfirsty quarter, though it still beat expectations. Profit was $984 million, or 81 cents per versus $994 million, or 78 cents per share, durinyg the first quarter of 2008.
UnitedHealth’z insurance plan enrollment has been shiftingtoward lower-margin, government-sponsorec health plans — a trend that has worriecd investors because of the government’s plans to tighte Medicare Advantage reimbursement rates. There’xs also a great deal of uncertainty overPresidenf Obama’s plans for a major health care reform this Still, investors worries appear to have been allayed some in recenf months. After hitting a low of abourt $16 per share in March, UnitedHealth’xs stock is now trading at abouty $28 per share.
The company has been actively engaging in the healthnreform process, rather than oppose it as many healt insurers did when the Clinton administrationh sought to overhaul the system in the UnitedHealth CEO Hemsley last month , sayingf the skyrocketing cost of health care was hurtintg the country. UnitedHealth is the parentf companyof Cypress-based PacifiCare.
“Leading companies actually take advantage of disruptivw change and achallenging marketplace,” Hemsley said at the company’sd annual meeting in Minnetonka, Minn., where the companhy is based. Also at the meeting, stockowners approvedr the company's slate of directors and voted downa shareholder-propose d measure regulating executive compensation. The meeting comes at an unsettled time for theinsurancs industry. UnitedHealth (NYSE:UNH) in April reported mixed results for itsfirsty quarter, though it still beat expectations. Profit was $984 million, or 81 cents per versus $994 million, or 78 cents per share, durinyg the first quarter of 2008.
UnitedHealth’z insurance plan enrollment has been shiftingtoward lower-margin, government-sponsorec health plans — a trend that has worriecd investors because of the government’s plans to tighte Medicare Advantage reimbursement rates. There’xs also a great deal of uncertainty overPresidenf Obama’s plans for a major health care reform this Still, investors worries appear to have been allayed some in recenf months. After hitting a low of abourt $16 per share in March, UnitedHealth’xs stock is now trading at abouty $28 per share.
The company has been actively engaging in the healthnreform process, rather than oppose it as many healt insurers did when the Clinton administrationh sought to overhaul the system in the UnitedHealth CEO Hemsley last month , sayingf the skyrocketing cost of health care was hurtintg the country. UnitedHealth is the parentf companyof Cypress-based PacifiCare.
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