Word: coste
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...apparent lack of need for capital by the banks coupled with the desire for the Administration to find new cost cuts in the budget should make the $250 billion "placeholder" a financial anachronism...
...electric cars still remain few and far between, while there are already millions of U.S. vehicles on the road that can run on an ethanol blend. Creating the sort of infrastructure that can support electric cars on a mass scale won't be cheap, and it's not a cost that Campbell and his colleagues included in their study. "There's a lot more we have to look at on biomass," says Campbell...
...close its Allston substation as a result of University-wide budget reductions—even though a HUPD sergeant seemed to suggest at an Allston construction management meeting Wednesday night that Harvard was considering such a move. While HUPD is holding preliminary discussions to examine a number of potential cost-saving measures, “the safety and security of the people on our campus is HUPD’s primary concern” and will not be affected by budgetary changes, said University spokeswoman Lauren Marshall. But at Wednesday’s meeting of the Construction Management Subcommittee...
...President recently told a remarkable story about his grandmother. In the last months of her life - she was dying of cancer - she broke her hip and received a hip replacement from Medicare. "I don't know how much that hip replacement cost," Obama told the New York Times, and he questioned whether giving people "a hip replacement when they're terminally ill is a sustainable model." This is the most sensitive health-care issue imaginable. But the question of whether the government can decide which health-care treatments are appropriate is central to whether an affordable universal system...
...rules agreed on in the arcane budget process, Democrats will need only a simple majority vote in the Senate. But the process could run into the same two roadblocks that caused universal health insurance to fail in the past: the specter of "socialized medicine" and the fear that the cost of the program will, like that of other entitlements, spiral out of control...