81.   Other businesses are doing the same.

82.   Other trading businesses did worse.

83.   Private insurance plans wishing to do business in the Medicare market would have to be certified as meeting federal standards.

84.   Rising productivity means businesses are doing more work with the same amount of labor and materials, and it suggests that wages can also rise without sparking inflation.

85.   Remember a couple of years ago when Americans believed that Japanese business could do no wrong?

86.   So far it is mostly an ideological concept based on the fragile assumption that business always does things better than government.

87.   Some members therefore have reportedly taken to doing what private business often does by grasping any excuse to exempt employees from the Fair Labor Standards Act.

88.   Supporters say they expect few businesses to do that.

89.   That culture presents a threat to the rapidly expanding number of companies that want to do business on line but also need to protect proprietary information.

90.   That will truly tell you how business is doing.