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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (268835)	1/16/2006 4:01:41 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574005

Ted, There is only one company with employment between 5-10K......that's the state utility company and they ain't going anywhere. There's got to be others, or else the Maryland legislature would have set the limit at 5K in the first place. For example, I remember Giant Food being the biggest grocery store chain there: giantfood.com Already 100 stores in Maryland. You're telling me they have less than 50 employees per store? When I did my search, Giant did not come up. EDIT: The NY Times reports that four companies are above the 10K limit in Maryland. Giant Food is one of them: nytimes.com Of course, Giant already meets the legislature's minimum requirements for health care. But on a different note, if four companies each employ more than 10K Marylanders, I'm pretty sure there are a lot more companies who employ 5-10K Marylanders. And that would counter your assertion that only the utilities fall into that category. As far as I can tell, I only missed two......Science Application and Marriott.....they are in Baltimore county which I thought was covered under Baltimore. They both employ around 8K. There are other employers who employ 5-10K people but they are either gov't, educational or health facilities. Most private firms are under 5K. Its pretty surprising. I know the WA Metro is made up of mostly gov't but I didn't realize it was to that extent.