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Entries Tagged ‘Appointment’

Here is an example of some terrible waste that tends to be standard:

I went to my regular dr’s office last spring and saw a nurse practitioner as usual, however, I was experiencing a problem for which they sent me to the Hospital next door to have an ultrasound test done. The next day, my dr’s office called and advised that they would need to refer me to [...]

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Are adequate housing and health care not essential for a functioning society?

Adequate housing and health care are not essential for a functioning society. They are the result of a successfully functioning society. You can’t provide health care for all the people if only a few are productive enough to pay for it. You can’t have adequate housing for the same reason.
Only when a society has provided [...]

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Countrywide’s Sambol will not run lending, B of A says

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - The controversial president of failed mortgage lender
Countrywide Financial Corp. [s:cfc] will be retiring after the company is
acquired by Bank of America Corp. later this year, Bank of America said Wednesday
in a company statement. David Sambol had been tapped to helm the combined
mortgage operations of both companies, but regulatory and shareholder outrage
over [...]

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AIG unit fined $1.3 million by U.K. regulator

LONDON (MarketWatch) — The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority said Wednesday
that it’s fined Unat Direct, a subsidiary fo American International Group Inc.
640,000 pounds ($1.26 million) for failings related to effective control and
oversight of its appointment of call centers. The regulator said Unat did not
carry out an acceptable level of due diligence on nine call centers it [...]

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Margin Lender Lift Capital Appoints Voluntary Administrators

Margin Lender Lift Capital Appoints Voluntary Administrators
Last Update: 4/10/2008 9:37:22 PM
SYDNEY (Dow Jones)–Corporate recovery group McGrathNicol said Friday it has been
appointed as a voluntary administrator for Australian stockbroking and margin
lending firm Lift Capital Partners Pty Ltd. and Lift Capital Nominees No. 1 Pty.
In a statement, McGrathNicol said Lift Capital operates as a margin lender and
has [...]

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