A8 Weighing Prescription Plans About half the states, uncertain about prospects that Congress will approve a Medicare prescription benefit, are at least considering joining a Bush administration program that will provide federal matching money to extend drug coverage to old people whose incomes are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.
There was not the same concern about how many would be working next year". The Board's inaction will "break the backs of the managerial work force in the county," said Joseph P. Hankin, president of Westchester Community College in Valhalla, asserting that the Board's failure to approve a salary and benefits package would force managers to supervise employees who earned more than they did.
Last week parliament approved a new benefit to encourage families in which both parents work to have more children.Nor are the coalition's failures all Ms Merkel's fault.
But buying votes with Social Security promises is a hoary ploy whose master practitioner was none other than President Richard M. Nixon; he helped seal his landslide reelection in 1972 by approving a 20percentt benefit increase on July 1 of that year.
Just last week, the port board approved a Customer Benefits Package that will assist customers, like Maersk, through this economic downturn.
Many sick patients would prefer that the FDA approve a drug with a marginal benefit than reject it.
The next year, the budget still was flush and union leaders persuaded the Republican dominated legislature to approve a 9 percent increase in pension benefits.
The Senate today abandoned its effort to pass a plan to boost the economy, but then briefly put aside partisan recriminations to approve a narrow measure extending unemployment benefits for 13 weeks beyond the current 26-week limit.
But it agreed to submit the deals to Congress only after receiving what administration officials described as sufficient assurances that House Republicans would also approve an expansion of benefits for displaced workers.
The separation will also help Medco to compete for Medicare business if Congress approves a Medicare drug benefit, said Barbara Ryan, an analyst at Deutsche Bank Alex.
Officials for Los Angeles World Airports had said they were not trying to rush the lease for political reasons but wanted to approve an agreement for the economic benefit of the airport.
