This pilot was started in 10 health care sites all over the country, with two physicians per site selected to participate.
In 2007 another pilot was started looking at the prioritization of results for policy making (phase one of the action-plan).
So the contagion of America's lousy labour relations is spreading abroad, latterly to Lufthansa (which had strikes last month), Iberia Airlines in Spain, which is having them every other day, and to Cathay Pacific in Hong Kong, where pilots are starting a go-slow.The pendulum swingsFor airlines and economies, not to mention the benighted passengers, this is bad news.
At Columbia, a new pilot program is starting this month, modeled from Brown's, to provide tampons and pads in men's, women's, and gender-neutral bathrooms.
The reform law is starting pilot programs to test ways to reduce Medicare costs without cutting benefits.
Next year, the Boy Scouts is starting pilot programs in six heavily Hispanic cities, including Fresno, Calif., and Orlando, Fla., to test ways of introducing scouting to immigrant parents.
It is starting a pilot programme to work out how to connect the "unbanked" to financial institutions.
Barnes & Noble College Booksellers, too, is starting a pilot rental program at three of its 624 college bookstores this fall.
Follett Higher Education Group, which manages more than 850 college bookstores, is starting a pilot rental program this fall at about a dozen stores, including those at the State University at Buffalo, Grand Rapids Community College in Michigan, and California State University at Sacramento.
A spokesperson said: "The free Google AdWords Grant program is starting a pilot for a handful of eligible non-profits organizations to run ads against terrorism-related search queries of their choosing".
