[applause] >> hopefully gm is not here, and now of the national nurses united. she can talk a little bit more about the issues involved in that strike. readers of the hard copy of the "washington post" will notice i'm sure that the washington hospital center is spending tens of thousands of dollars telling the folks in this community how much they care about patient care and the quality of the care they provide, money that would be better spent a green to the unions recent proposals are merged patient staffing ratios and other improvements that they need in the contract as our ends, the people who use the hospital. we had another strike last week with similar significance, 1200 nurses in los angeles. last wednesday a group that others in this room have worked with. they are members of the new national union of health care workers are there some contribution envelope for the union and an update on the activity in recent months. this is an important new addition to the labor movement in california. and is subject of much of this new book, civil wars. i want to tha

nurse practitioners than anyone else in the nation. we have a higher tax rate at 39%. some think of us as the nation's leading drugstore chain because we operate more than 3200cvs stores here in the united states, the district, and puerto rico. 75% of all americans live within three miles of our stores. a leading pharmacy manager or pbm. as you know, they assist health plans, unions, and governments to design benefit options that meet their members needs and help drive down costs. that being said, we think that cvs is more than just a pbm and drugstore chape. we consider ourselves a part of the fabric of american society working to improve the lives and health of our customers and to provide those services at the lowest possible cost. because of that thinking, we have made significant investments in our people and in our infrastructure here in the u.s.. we believe that's our only gailings as part of the -- obligation as part of the american business community. now, over the past five years, we have reinvested more than $10 billion of our earnings in the domestic operations and our employees, but we do believe that we can do more. our company is committed to making significant future inv

nurse is our guy. >> well, let me try and answer that in some sort of way. >> i sometimes feel i operate a little bit like the u.n., the united nations. sometimes i'm faced ith difficult problems. people are not getting on or devitt of persuading the government to give money or do this, that or the other and what i do try to do is engage individuals and try and find a wayhrough. so i really do focus on that. i'm not confrontational. i am very determined. but i look for a way which allows everybody to feel that they've got a piece of the action and can claim some victory. so i guess that might be a skill that i do have. >> there you go. >> let me move to stem cells. where are we today? >> right. let's-- first of all, what are stem cells, let's get that clear. stem cells are a particular type of cell in our body that actually in the all living organisms including plants have an equivalent of stem cells. and what they are able to do is to keep proliferating, dividing, that is the process we were talking about before. and then the pro genie of that can turn into different cell types, into different tissues, into the different parts of di

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