Word: affordability
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...some young, growing companies see retiree health benefits as a useful recruiting tool. "It's back on the table," she says. But no company is willing to make open-ended promises. "They'll say, We'll give you an allowance or a fixed subsidy--as long as we can afford it--but we're not going to give you retiree health benefits," Darling explains. "There's a big difference." It's a shift similar to the one that transformed retirement, replacing the defined lifetime benefit of a pension with a defined contribution to a 401(k). The risk becomes...
...shows, in the extreme, that corporate paternalism in the form of health insurance has outlived its usefulness. GM's biggest mistake may have been to assume that it would always be strong enough to handle the promises it made in its powerful prime. No company--and no worker--can afford to make that assumption anymore. This new reality requires a new covenant...
...pointed out that many borrowers could save money by taking out adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMS). Many borrowers did save money with ARMs, and the idea that a few words from Greenspan at a credit-union meeting persuaded millions of others to take out teaser-rate loans they couldn't afford stretches belief. But with ARM-related defaults on the rise, it doesn't look good...
...With monthly profits of $1 billion, Microsoft can easily afford to appeal the ruling. But at this point, after years of legal wrangles and so many clear reverses, it has to ask whether it is now time to just move...
...some carp to take care of the pond's grass, has not exactly taken root in this environment. The owners spend every spare minute of the summer working on their dachas, but have no enthusiasm for doing anything for the greater good. "It's not that people can't afford it," says a homeowner who gives her name only as Tanya, "it is that people do not believe that if they hand over some money, no matter how small, and no matter how positive the cause, that something will actually come of it." After seven decades of Soviet life...