The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association is a well established family of health benefits companies providing health services for 100 million Americans. Blue Cross insured approximately 12‚300 active groups as of October 1‚ 2005. The groups had a total of 47‚000 enrolled subscribers and 92‚000 members. This contrasts with 13‚800 groups as of January 1‚ 2003‚ with 58‚000 subscribers and 115‚000 total members. Nationwide‚ more than 96% of hospitals and 91% of professional providers contract
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My lungs burned as I ran faster from blue blooded trolls. Why where we running? Well we where attacked by them when we were minding our own business. Now we are running for our lives. We never did anything wrong. Not that I know of. We where running towards a large crevasse with water at the bottom. "Scatter!" I turned left as my sister jumped over the crevasse and my brothers went right. Making the mistake of looking behind me I saw the majority of the blue bloods chasing me. ’Fuck.’ As I ran past
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Issues faced by Jet Blue 1 A. Some of the significant issues Jet Blue faced on February 14‚ 2007 were due to an unexpected ice storm that grounded over 39% of the scheduled flights over a course of three days. Because Jet Blue’s services are intangible‚ it was hard for the company to make up for the flight cancellations. Also‚ the services that Jet Blue offers such as flights are perishable. Therefore‚ all profits from cancelled flights were lost. Another issue faced by Jet Blue was the communication
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"Blue Winds Dancing"� "Blue Winds Dancing"�‚ the story of a man’s internal conflict is revealed by Tom Whiteclouds’ telling of the young man’s thoughts while he is at school‚ his observations during his trip home and his reaction to the people when he arrives home. In the beginning of the story (paragraphs 1-10) the Indian compares the city to the reservation. He thinks of the city as a captive place‚ a place "where trees grow in rows and the palms stand stiffly by the road sides."� I think the
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The Gospel of the Blues By: Nikita Gabrielle Taggart Nikita Taggart MUS 426 Dr. Lewis 5/1/14 Have you ever gone out on a Saturday night to hear someone sing the blues? In the same respect‚ gone to a church the next morning and heard a gospel soloist? If not‚ one might think that these two musical expressions have nothing in common with one another. However‚ by listening to the motivic development‚ form‚ and studying their histories‚ one will come to learn how similar
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The impact of Blue Ocean Strategy In the earlier work (See Blue Ocean Strategy: how to create uncontested market ‚ 2005) it has been argued two types of strategies: blue ocean strategy and red ocean strategy. Red ocean strategists compete to win market share in traditional mature markets and pursue either a differentiation or cost leader strategy. On the other hand‚ Blue ocean strategists‚ create new environments‚ redefine products or services or the nature of competition‚ make competition irrelevant
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develop a deeper understanding of the Blue Ocean Strategy. With the research the student will understand the Blue Ocean Strategy and manage to use it when doing a business. The Blue Ocean Strategy consists of strategy canvas‚ value curve‚ four actions framework‚ six paths‚ buyer experience cycle‚ buyer utility map and blue ocean idea index. This concept is very effective and can make a business person successful. In blue ocean‚ demand is created not to fought over. Blue Ocean is not about technology innovation
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I wanted my grandma dead. For as long as I could remember my Grandma was my best friend. She learned how to use a phone just so she could talk to me every day. Every time I would go to her house we would play board games and make cookies. In elementary school she would pull me out of class we would go to the park or Olive Garden. Over a span of three years she developed alzheimer’s‚ and it was miserable. Watching someone you love fade away takes a toll on you. My Grandma very slowly started to forget
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I have always been fond of the way the snow-covered trees stick out like sore thumbs against the blue sky during the frigid winter months. When I was seven‚ I would stand outside for hours swaddled in winter gear‚ just breathing out puffs of air that would appear in front of me. A buldgy jacket‚ mittens‚ a hat‚ and socks sticking out of my clunky boots. Everything I was wearing matched the blue sky‚ because god forbid I wore an outfit that didn’t go well together. I’m not sure what had initially
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The book Gathering Blue is the story of a young weaver named Kira who lives in a community. The community is somewhat primitive and does not have running water and people live in cotts made out of brambles and sticks. Kira’s mother dies and Kira has to sit with her at the field per the way they mourn. When she returns to rebuild her cott on her mother’s space‚ another woman with a scar across her face challenges her for the land area. Kira has a foot that drags and has much pain from it. She has
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