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Stock Market Today: Dow Gains 450 Points on Hopes for Quick End to Iran War — Live Updates WSJWhat in the world just happened to the Dow? CNNStock market today: Nasdaq leads S&P 500, Dow higher as deescalation talk in Iran extends rally Yahoo FinanceStocks Recover Sharply Amid Hope for Iran War's End The New York TimesWall Street just had its best day in nearly a year over a
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Even with Tuesday's bounce, Boeing's stock still dropped 12.5% in March.
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The 95-year-old investor said he still comes into the office daily and stays engaged with markets.
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AFTER a brain aneurysm in 2004, Mary McClinton was admitted to Virginia Mason Medical Centre in Seattle. Preparing for an x-ray, the 69-year-old was injected not, as she should have been, with a dye that highlights blood vessels, but with chlorhexidine, an antiseptic. Both are colourless liquids. The dye is harmless; the antiseptic proved lethal. After kidney failure, a stroke and two cardiac arrests McClinton died 19 days later.
In response, Virginia Mason committed itself to improving safety. It used an unlikely model: the Toyota Production System (TPS), the Japanese carmaker's "lean" manufacturing techniques. Nearly every part of the hospital, from radiology to recruitment, was analysed and standardised. Staff were trained to raise safety concerns. Today Virginia Mason prides itself on its safety record—and sells its take on Toyota to hospitals across the world.
Among its recent customers are five in England's National Health Service (NHS), including University Hospitals...Continue reading
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