Word: coste
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...house will hold an advantage. In this case the house effectively consists of big players like Goldman Sachs who own supercomputers that can easily stay one step ahead of your moves. Also, since you're not a big player the action is going to come at a steep cost. You'll pay more in exchange fees and commissions than the big boys, and get less profitable prices, buying slightly higher and selling slightly lower than they...
...forward a plan, had left it to Congress, had written it ourselves - because it represents some long-standing ideological divisions in our Congress and, frankly, in our society ... We've put forward what I continue to believe is the most sensible way of financing [a portion of covering the cost of the uninsured], and that is simply to lower the deductions, the itemized deductions that wealthy individuals can take. That would have covered it ... The fact that that has not yet been adopted I don't think is reflective of me not giving clarity to Congress...
...mother, who had a difficult time with her cancer in part because her insurance was a little bit unreliable and she had just taken a new job, my grandmother had been signed up under Kaiser Permanente for years. And it's actually one of the models of high-quality, cost-efficient care that's out there right now, partly because they maintain such a stable base of patients and they construct a whole team approach that has proven to be very effective. So my grandmother was generally very happy with her care, and if we could actually get our health...
...filmmakers; my G.I. tract, in fact the communal contumely of critics, is irrelevant to box-office performance. G.I. Joe could be a Transformers-size hit, or it could be another The Golden Compass, the first episode of the His Dark Materials novels; that film cost $180 million and helped drive New Line Cinema out of business. Who knows? Nearly 30 years ago, director Robert Benton mused on a famous flop of the day. "When Steven Spielberg made 1941," Benton said, "he probably thought there...
...drug lobby argues that an $80 billion commitment is not inconsequential. At least $30 billion will go directly toward discounts that lower the cost of drugs to seniors who get caught in Medicare's infamous gap in coverage known as the "doughnut hole." But the real boost that the drug lobby is giving to the health-reform effort is a political one. Ken Johnson, a spokesman for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, insists his organization is wholeheartedly behind the idea of comprehensive health reform. And as he puts it, "We are a force to be reckoned with...