In a recent example, Triad Hospitals abandoned a takeover offer in March from two private equity firms in favor of a $5.1 billion bid from a rival, Community Health Systems.
In a recent example, Shire Laboratories invited a group of psychiatrists to dinner at the Omni Berkshire Place Hotel in Manhattan on April 25.
In a recent example, Xi's government proposed strict new rules on banking technology, triggering an outcry, after which regulators backed off the idea.
Another option is for hospitals or insurance companies to audit outlier physicians, as in a recent example of a back surgeon with a pattern of unusually high billing.
In a recent example, the Coney Island Development Corporation, essentially a subsidiary of the Economic Development Corporation, hired three buses to carry people to a hearing last month on the mayor's proposal to revitalize 19 blocks of the Coney Island amusement district.
In a recent example it found that people who had been in contact with the sick were fleeing into the bush so as not to be traced, fearful of what would happen if they were.
In a recent example, The Times partnered with Footnoted.com, a finance- oriented Web site founded and edited by the journalist Michelle Leder, to produce a Page 1 story about Goldman Sachs's rich executive compensation plan.
In a recent example, villagers in Wukan, in the southern province of Guangdong, rose up to demand more of the value of their seized land — and the government acquiesced, apparently the result of intervention by the Guangdong party secretary, Wang Yang, long reputed to be a liberal.
In a recent example of his provocative style he suggested Ismail Haniya, Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip, be given 48 hours to hand over two detained Israeli civilians and the bodies of soldiers killed in a 2014 war "or you're dead".
In a recent example, critics scoffed at the armchair activism of the Facebook Dakota pipeline check-in movement.
