Hospitals are in the business of providing a certain level of acute care.

The initiative's goal was not to drive business to one wholesaler, but to reduce pharmaceutical costs for participating hospitals. This regional effort was driven by our membership and really showed how hospitals can work together to affect change.

It took a mammoth effort to prioritize patients and put a plan into place. Our home aid workers can't afford to take car services from one side of the Bronx to the other, so we booked microbuses, vans and town cars when we saw this thing coming.

It was a management challenge and the tab will be fairly substantial when we add it all up.

Solar is but a tiny, tiny, tiny part of their business. They make 99.9 percent of their money in the oil business.

Baghdad is bustling with commerce. Universities and hospitals are open for business, ... A free press is flourishing, Iraqi banks have started taking applications for small business loans so Iraqi entrepreneurs can create jobs.