News at deadline.(healthcare news briefs)(Brief Article)

Modern Healthcare;  August 14, 2000 ;     275 words ......to implement the new rate in a timely manner. The healthcare rate follows the private consumer rate. The Treasury Department will revise the private consumer rate again before Nov. 1. * Universal Health Services, King of Prussia, Pa., has appointed...

Credit card retail sales in Gulf markets grow 137 percent since 2000

Xinhua News Agency;  April 22, 2004 ;     311 words ......obviously helped by strong growth in private consumer expenditure, the report said. Market...issued by the US-based Global Insight, private consumer expenditure in the Gulf Cooperation...household goods through cards. The private consumer expenditure value in the region rose...

Analysis: High-profile thefts of private consumer data put pressure on...

NPR Special;  April 15, 2005 ;   NOAH ADAMS;   548 words ......04-15-2005 Analysis: High-profile thefts of private consumer data put pressure on Congress and...A sting of high-profile thefts of private consumer data has left many Americans apprehensive...some businesses might be too lax with private consumer data. And some members of Congress...

California May Increase Role Of LTC Insurers.(California Legislature bill...

National Underwriter Life & Health-Financial Services Edition;  September 25, 2000 ;   BELL, ALLISON;   387 words ......first began publishing detailed LTC consumer rate guides this year. The original consumer rate guide law recommended that state regulators...regulators. One historical section of the consumer rate guide would still summarize each carrier...

Wellstone to ask Qwest to stop sharing private consumer data.(NEWS)

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  January 14, 2002 ;   Duchschere, Kevin;   283 words ......Kevin Duchschere; Staff Writer RSEC: + Sen. Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., will today call on Qwest Communications to withhold private consumer information from its affiliated companies unless it first gets explicit permission from its customers to release it. But...

MCI sees Sprint's bet, will call for a nickel

Charleston Daily Mail;  August 9, 1999 ;     41 words ...NEW YORK - A price battle in long-distance calling heated up today when MCI WorldCom launched a nickel-a-minute plan for weeknights and weekends - similar to a new Sprint promotion. MCI WorldCom is offering the new consumer rate, which comes with a monthly fee.

Correction.(Correction notice)

Saint Paul Pioneer Press (St. Paul, MN);  October 24, 2006 ;     94 words ...Oct. 24--Business: The consumer rate sample on Sunday listed the wrong yield for Key Community Bank's six-month CD. It is 5.06 percent. Sports: In a story on Sunday...

Loose change.

US Banker;  August 1, 1998 ;     263 words ......in the home equity lending business. The Consumer Bankers Association's 1998 Home Equity Loan Study found that the average consumer rate on a line of credit was 127 basis points over prime at the end of 1997, compared to 141 bp the year before. Moreover, closing...

TAXATION: CONSULTATION ON TAXATION OF SERVICES SUPPLIED TO PRIVATE...

European Report;  January 5, 2005 ;     205 words ......services are supplied to private consumers. The Commission is considering changing the place of taxation to that of the private consumer for some specific services i.e. passenger transport services, restaurant and catering services, short term hiring of means...

Private Consumer Advocate, Sam Levine, Launches Website:...

PR Newswire;  February 11, 2003 ;     358 words ...ATLANTA -- ATLANTA, Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Sam Levine, an Atlanta-based private Consumer Advocate who has been helping and advising people with Consumer Problems since 1993, recently launched his website, http://www...

BAILOUT FEAR SEEN FOR NUCLEAR PLANTS

The Boston Globe;  October 12, 1990 ;   Associated Press;   125 words ...WASHINGTON - A private consumer group charged yesterday that electric utilities are underestimating the cost of shutting down nuclear power plants and could force...

Local Focus.(Business)

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  January 21, 2005 ;     157 words ...Suncast agrees to acquire assets BATAVIA - Suncast Corp., a private consumer home products maker, said it agreed to acquire certain assets and product lines of Consolidated Foam Inc., an outdoor accessories...

New privacy framework.(Brief Article)

Leaders' Edge;  September 1, 2003 ;     152 words ......better manage their personal information assets enterprise-wide, as well as more effectively manage risks associated with private consumer information. Developed jointly by the AICPA and the Canadian Institute of Chartered Accountants (CICA), with input from...

Joe K pushes utility rate relief.

The Boston Herald;  September 16, 1997 ;   Munroe, Tony;   233 words ......joint committee on government regulations, Kennedy said utilities must not make off with windfalls that should instead go to consumer rate relief. Morrissey said he agrees. Still, he said, a balance must be struck to make restructuring work. If we could figure...

MARKEY SAYS CABLE REPORT COMPELS FCC ACTION TO RESTRAIN RATES, PROMOTE...

Capitol Hill Press Releases;  January 13, 1998 ;     481 words ......monopolies. It is increasingly clear that the current FCC consumer rate protections are overly generous to cable monopolies. Chairman...the source of problems in the current rules and revise such consumer rate protection rules accordingly. NO PORTION OF THIS TRANSCRIPTION...