Blue Cross Plans May Become For Profit Nationwide
The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association will allow member plans to convert from nonprofit to for profit, enabling stock sales and investor funding. About a dozen of 69 plans are considering the change to boost competitive position in the national health care market. Blue Cross covers 67 million people, with 27 million in related managed care networks, and last year posted a $2.7 billion surplus on $71 billion revenue, though the Washington DC plan ran a deficit.
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New York
National Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association
New York Times
Blue Cross
Coast Guard Academy seeks cadets for class of 1999
U S Coast Guard Academy in New London Ct invites applications for appointment to the class of 1999. Deadline Dec 15 1994. Applicants must take SAT or ACT by December 1994 tests and meet academic and leadership criteria. Cadets study engineering and sciences toward a bachelor of science and are commissioned as ensigns upon graduation.
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London
U.S. Coast Guard Academy
Director of Admissions
College Board
Ried
Coast Guard
U.S. Coast Guard
Mohegan Ave
New London
Floss Helps Inmate Escape From West Virginia Jail
Prisoner Robert Shepard, 34, used a floss rope braided to telephone-cord thickness to scale an 18-foot fence at the SOUTH CHARLESTON jail. He cut through a second fence and fled at 1:25 a.m. Wednesday during outdoor recreation, while awaiting a preliminary hearing on robbery and firearms charges. The jail reports floss being removed from the jail store.
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South Charleston
W.va
Robert Shepard
Larry Parsons
Shepard
Parsons
Housing Funding Boost Planned for HUD Programs
The House Appropriations Committee approved FY95 HUD funding measures (H.R. 4568), proposing a $200 million increase for CDBG to $4.6 billion and $1.1 billion for homeless assistance grants, with a larger reopening aim than the administration, and a merger of several homeless programs while excluding the Emergency Food and Shelter Program from FEMA. The package also sets $11.5 billion for assisted housing, outlines HOPE cuts to $100 million, and maintains HOME at $1.27 billion and Youthbuild at $50 million.
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Department of Housing & Urban Development
House Appropriations Committee
Senate
Clinton
Emergency Food & Shelter
Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA
Hope
Opportunity For
Father and Son Bike Toward Grandma's House Four Week Trek
Duncan Handford thirteen and his father Andy ride from Colorado Springs to Pittsburgh to reach grandma and grandpa’s home. They passed Ottawa for lunch, plan to arrive July seventeenth, chase the World Cup final, and endured 108 degree heat and 112 mile days.
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Tove Handford
Duncan
Andy Handford
Colorado Springs
Colo
Jim and
Bettina Garvey
Pittsburgh
Ottawa
Ninth and Main
Andy
England
Lynn
Grandma
Grandma’s
Linda Williams
Colorado
Pennsylvania
CBS explores merger talks with QVC network
CBS confirms discussions on a potential merger with QVC Inc. valued over 2 billion dollars. If completed Barry Diller would lead the combined company while Laurence Tisch would retire. Reports cite unnamed sources and say negotiations have been ongoing for weeks.
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New York
CBS
QVC
Barry Diller
CBS Radio
Los Angeles Times
New York Times
Union Station Returns to Kansas City After Legal Battle
The 80 year old Union Station has been returned to Kansas City interests. The Union Station Assistance Corp. now owns the station and surrounding land after a lawsuit over Trizec Properties Inc. of Canada failing to renovate as promised. The settlement includes 1.5 million dollars to the nonprofit, with Trizec retaining parking and easement rights for two adjacent office buildings.
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Kansas City, Mo
Union Station
Kansas City
Union Station Assistance Corp
Andy Scott
Trizec Properties Inc
Canada
Trizec
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