World & Nation
Being “The Girl With the Future” the advertisement in the summer of 1943 declared, meant joining the U.S.
Jan. 3, 2000
Bureaucracy: One such employee begins his day with coffee, using the cup as a building block for a huge arch. He gets an annual bonus to encourage him not to quit.
July 14, 1996
The former chief of the U.S.
Sept. 9, 1992
Health: The 52-year-old Arizonan is confirmed on unanimous vote in the Senate.
July 24, 2002
Business
The medical services company, which has been embroiled in a corporate fraud case involving its ex-CEO, will pay $100 million.
June 9, 2005
What does the surgeon general do?
March 13, 2011
Centene agreed to the pact to resolve claims that it overcharged Texas’ Medicaid program for pharmacy services. California is investigating similar claims.
Sept. 21, 2022
Technology and the Internet
The Telecommunications Reform Act of 1996 left a lot of unanswered questions about the character of the “information superhighway”--chief among them the future of universal service.
June 3, 1996
Regulators in Britain extended the shutdown of Chiron Corp.’
Dec. 8, 2004
Top Administration health officials have drafted a plan to set up a Senior Biomedical Research Service that would pay the government’s most eminent scientists up to $110,000 a year, said Thomas R.
July 14, 1987