This
shotgun marriage could not have survived without some beneficiaries, notably: the health sector, on which it bestows large implicit subsidies; large employers, to whom it grants a competitive advantage over smaller competitors; and policymakers, on whom it bestows greater importance and a reason to legislate.
Side Effects and Complications: The Economic Consequences of Health-Care Reform
According to tweets from journalists who were addressed by the paper's management, FT Editor Lionel Barber told staff the deal "was not and is not a
shotgun marriage", saying there had been hours of conversation.
Japan's Nikkei buys Financial Times in $1.3 bln deal
THE Vale council has formally requested a merger with Bridgend - as it seeks to pre-empt a
shotgun marriage with Cardiff.
Merger BETWEENVALE and Bridgend councils a step closer
The book at first glance may seem like a
shotgun marriage of two unrelated topics.
With a Sword in One Hand and Jomini in the Other: The Problem of Military Thought in the Civil War North
When I was a medical student, our professor of obstetrics used to illustrate the effect that stress can have on fertility by saying many a young man had been forced into a
shotgun marriage with a young woman whose period was late, to find out he'd married nothing more than a bag of nerves.
De-stress if you want to become pregnant
Or if she and her first husband had actually tried longer to make a go of their
shotgun marriage? What if she had not had the innate intelligence to succeed at Harvard Law?
You'd better be perfect... or lucky
Clapper, the director of national intelligence, saying Iran even has a "
shotgun marriage" with al Qaeda.
On geopolitics: second holocaust?
POSTSCRIPT: THERE are still at least still four fiddle makers on Merseyside, if the LEP-TMP
shotgun marriage wants a bit of mood music.
Spend more than you earn and you are in trouble
Are we witnessing a
shotgun marriage, conveniently satisfying an urge, but grounded on self-interest that forsakes mutual respect?
Tahrir: Bamboozling the bride
An example is a case in which a radio show suggested falsely that a victim of elephantiasis was forced into a
shotgun marriage because that was the only basis upon which anyone would marry him.
Law and ethics--social media issues
But it is a
shotgun marriage at best, and most unlikely to last.
Warding off the revolution
HOME Office bosses yesterday denied a "
shotgun marriage" had been used to get a firm place to avoid Taser shortages.
Taser deal 'wasn't rushed' Home Office boss denies shotgun marriage' claim
The baby-faced 38-year-old has emerged as the most visible critic of the Obama-BP
shotgun marriage that has thus far failed to cap the Deepwater Horizon well, accusing the president's team of a sluggish, uncoordinated response to the disaster.
Louisiana Governor Jindal again seeks political mileage from Gulf oil spill
Or perhaps in the euphoria of their
shotgun marriage they were not really thinking at all.
Promising start gents; We say THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE
Worse, some of them began to assume that ALL women were on it so if they did conceive, then it was their own fault - and, anyway, they'd probably done it deliberately to trap the poor guy into either a
shotgun marriage or paying for an unwanted child.
Golden age for the pill.. but it's still not the ideal solution