Word: costes
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...swine flu" was supposed to bring global commerce to a halt, drive global GDP down by 5%, and cost the economies across the world as much as $3 trillion dollars. In the process, as many as a million people were supposed to die. The forecasts for what the flu might have done to damage an already weak global economy shows many of the weaknesses of the of the press, world health monitoring agencies, and economists. The worst case about something is often by far and away the least probable case. Implying that the worst case is the probable case tests...
...Unable to force Piech to give in, Porsche seems to have just run out of time. Its gambit to acquire VW cost Porsche dearly as it piled up a $12 billion mountain of debt to finance stock purchases. With the sports carmaker beginning to struggle under the weight of that debt, Porsche and Piech met in Salzburg, Austria on Wednesday to end the feud. Following that meeting, Porsche issued a statement declaring that the two companies aimed to "develop a corresponding basis for decision-making on the future structure of the common group...
...Bernanke said that the large banks that need to raise money will be able to do so in the private capital markets. If he is wrong, Bank of America will be back to ask for more loans from the government, which might cost the firm its independence...
...Pittsburgh's Wisniewski, the lead author of the new study, cautions against interpreting the results as an indictment against greedy drug companies eager to exclude difficult patients in order to show better results. "If the population in a [clinical] trial were more representative, that would come at a cost," he says. Researchers expect a certain number of bad reactions during clinical trials; some of these reactions can cause serious medical problems. If patients enter a trial with multiple complications - if they are, say, not only depressed, but also cocaine-addicted, hypertensive and diabetic - you dramatically increase the chances of adverse...
Strong initial orders for Tata Motors' new ultra-cheap car, the Nano, have boosted the struggling Indian carmaker's finances while prompting competitors to launch their own low-cost models. (Read "The World's Cheapest Car Debuts in India...