China's central bank is ordering commercial banks to keep more money on hand in an effort to stanch a flood of money into an economy wrestling with high inflation.
The People's Bank of China order Saturday raises the amount of deposits that banks must keep in reserve by 0.5 percentage …
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The objective of the study was to examine the feasibility of using routinely available assessment, Minimum Data Set (MDS), socio-economic, geographic and unit cost data to define a discrete number of clinically meaningful, cost-homogeneous Home and Community Care (HACC) client groups. Participants included new and existing Western Australian (WA) HACC beneficiaries from 1 January to 31 September 2001. Seventy two HACC agencies from metropolitan and rural regions participated, which represented 29% of the sector. A total of 9,404 quarterly periods of care contributed to the exploratory classification analysis and 12,697 to the confirmatory analysis. The final structure …
Deutsche Lufthansa AG said Tuesday its CityLine regional carrier will cut 20 percent of its 2,500-person work force and scale back the size of its fleet as it trims costs.
Lufthansa spokesman Patrick Meschenmoser said CityLine, which flies to smaller destinations within Europe, will reduce the number of its 50-seat CRJ-200 regional jets by 14 through 2010 from its overall fleet of 72 planes.
Meschenmoser said the cuts were being implemented to lower …
The northwestern United States enter wildfire season with drier-than-normal conditions following a mild winter that left little snow.
Robyn Heffernan, a deputy fire weather program manager at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, blames the El Nino weather pattern that suggests higher-than-normal fire wildfire potential for the northern Rocky Mountain states.
That includes Montana, Idaho, parts of eastern Washington, …
HUNTINGTON - Even though a body found in the Ohio River onSaturday has yet to be identified, the grandfather of a missing boysays his family feels a sense of relief.
"For so long, all the people's prayers have been for recovery,"said Steve "Poppy" Black. "Those prayers are answered."
Black is the grandfather of Justin Smoot, 15, one of two boys whodisappeared apparently while swimming in the Ohio River on May 21.
Barge workers at Kanawha River Terminals-Ceredo Dock found thebody of Smoot's friend, 14-year-old Randall …
MARIETTA, Okla. (AP) — An accident involving a barrel ride at an Oklahoma fairgrounds has killed an 8-year-old girl and left four other children seriously injured.
Love County Undersheriff Jason Bone tells television station KWTV that an all-terrain vehicle at the Love County Fairgrounds was pulling 55-gallon barrels that had been hollowed out so children could sit in them. He says the ATV was pulling seven barrels when the …
