US health-care reform may squeeze some firms, retirees
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NEW YORK (AFP) – The sweeping reform of the US health-care system could exact a high price on some businesses and deprive two million Americans of health insurance, industry and union leaders say. President Barack Obama on Tuesday signed a final, adjusted version of the health care reform bill into law, capping a historic overhaul that extends health insurance to an additional 32 million Americans. Congress, controlled by Obama's Democratic Party, passed the legislation without a single vote from Republicans, .. On Friday, telecommunications giant AT&T said it would take a one-billion-dollar charge in the first quarter of 2010 to...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 11:13:17 PM
Squeeze rue ruthless music labels
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Pop group Squeeze have said hits like Cool for Cats and Up the Junction would not have happened if the band were starting out in today's music industry. Singer Glenn Tilbrook... "If we'd been placed under the same commercial criteria, I think we'd have been gone after our first album." Their second album, which came out in 1979, contained their biggest hits. He was speaking as the group were honoured with a plaque at the site of one of their first gigs in south-east London. Tilbrook and Chris Difford returned to the Greenwich Borough Hall - where they played in...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 11:13:17 PM
Putting the Squeeze on Iran
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US-Iranian relations are once again headline news after dropping off the radar for several months in the wake of the US National Intelligence Estimate in December 2007. In recent days, media and public attention has focused on the growing US diplomatic overtures to Tehran, as well as the reports about a possible military attack on Iran that continue to circulate. With all of the focus on the diplomatic and military fronts, there has been little attention paid lately to the middle ground between the two: the US financial campaign against Iran. Financial pressure may be the most important tool the...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 11:13:17 PM
Dick Wilson, Mr. Whipple of `don't squeeze the Charmin,' dies (at 91)
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Dick Wilson, the character actor and pitchman who for 21 years played an uptight grocer begging customers "Please, don't squeeze the Charmin," died Monday. He was 91. Wilson died of natural causes at the Motion Picture & Television Fund Hospital in Woodland Hills, said his daughter Melanie Wilson, who is known for her role as a flight attendant on the ABC sitcom "Perfect Strangers." "He is part of the culture. He was still funny to the very end. That's his legacy," his daughter said. Wilson made more than 500 commercials as Mr. George Whipple, a man consumed with keeping bubbly...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 11:13:17 PM
Florence (Italy) putting squeeze on squeegee men (causing "great danger" to drivers and pedestrians)
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FLORENCE, Italy - Florence, Renaissance city of art and history, is trying to clean up its streets by cracking down on squeegee men, saying they were causing "great danger" to drivers and pedestrians alike. Mayor Leonardo Domenici issued a decree last week to force the squeegee men — people who wash drivers' windshields and demand payment — off the streets, imposing fines and detention of up to three months. The decree, which is valid through Oct. 30 but can be renewed, alleged the squeegee men were hindering traffic, inconveniencing pedestrians and abusing drivers, particularly women. While the measure was applauded...
Published on Wednesday 8th of September 2010 11:13:17 PM
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