| Chinese magnates just as philanthropic as Buffet or Gates: Report
Beijing, Apr 12: Microsoft chief Bill Gates and US' stock investor Warren Buffet might have earned a name for their handsome donations announced year after year for noble causes, but a new survey report released in China reveals that Chinese entrepreneurs are not far behind in opening their wallets when it comes to donations. .
Life among the mobiles
In the late '60s I was named Vice President of marketing for Bendix Corporation's Home Division. The subsidiary operated 15 plants from Pennsylvania to California and more than 20 retail facilities throughout the Southeast. Bendix got into the manufactured housing business as a result of its purchase of Boise Cascade Corporation which no longer wanted to pursue manufacturing homes and recreational vehicles and was very eager to shed its retail sales outlets. With its purchase of Boise, Bendix got the considerable management talents of William (Bill) Agee who would become President of Bendix in 1976 when President Jimmy Carter called Bendix's Chief Operating Officer Mike Blumenthal to Washington to be Secretary of the Treasury. Moreover, Boise had a reputation for quality products in all their endeavors and in the case of the mobile home division, this meant that you didn't have a different floor plan every time you slammed the door on one of their units.
No gas tax hikes without major spending reforms
John Taylor, a professor at Grand Valley State University's Seidman College of Business, notes that there are 533 road agencies in Michigan. Some of them, he adds, receive less than $100,000 from the state Transportation Fund. This is not a smart way to concentrate existing road tax dollars where they can be most effective. Taylor, who specializes in logistics, suggests that state, county and local officials get together and designate the roads most critical to business and economic development. Road condition and their economic impact ought to play a role as well as pure population and geography in the allocation of tax dollars, he suggests. Like the advocates pressing for higher gasoline taxes and greater auto registration fees in Lansing, Taylor would like to see more road money.
Ameritas Group to begin offering insurance coverage of laser ...
LINCOLN, Neb. Ameritas Group, a division of Ameritas Life Insurance Corp., will begin offering its policyholders an optional benefit covering laser vision correction, the company announced in a press release. The new benefit, called LASIK Advantage, will be available to customers beginning June 1, according to the release. LASIK Advantage will be available with almost all Ameritas Group dental plans within the entire spectrum of funding, from fully insured to self-insured. Customers will have several coverage option to choose from, with benefit amounts automatically increasing the longer a person is enrolled in the plan, the release said. The optional coverage will cover various types of LASIK procedures and PRK procedures.
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