Word: coste
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most recent period, revenue at the coffee shop company was down a modest 7.6%. Since economists have assumed American consumers have tightened their belts to the point where it cuts off blood supply, this number was remarkably good. Starbucks, where a cup of coffee can cost over $4, is still a luxury, albeit a modest one. But, if the company is doing relatively well, then discretionary spending has not disappeared. Same-store sales at Starbucks for the period were down 8% in the US, but only 5% was due to a lower number of transactions. The rest was because people...
...know what malpractice means and when it happens), there is little or no correlation between doing bad stuff and getting sued. We also observe that none of the countries whose medical systems are held up to us as better than ours has any malpractice system at all. And the cost of defensive medicine is enormous - much higher than published estimates...
...redundant and takes up way too much of our time - and many doctors believe it's largely for the benefit of the regulators themselves. A unified federal credentialing agency could pull those weeds right out and leave the country with 5% to 10% more doctoring at almost no cost...
...Nearly lost his 1992 Senate race after feminists mobilized against him for grilling Anita Hill during Clarence Thomas' Supreme Court nomination hearings (he called her testimony "flat-out perjury"). In 2004, his remark that a Supreme Court nominee who opposed abortion rights wouldn't pass Senate confirmation almost cost him the chance to run the hearings...
...Democratic primary, Sestak sounded a curiously cautious note in welcoming him, saying voters need to understand why the longtime Republican chose to switch at this particular moment. "If he were not running for re-election, would he have done this change? In short, is it worth any cost to hold on to one's job? Those questions need to be assessed by the citizenry," he told TIME. (See pictures of Obama's first 100 days in office...