Word: costes
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...order to coordinate the world's stimulus exit. The first steps are slated to be announced by the end of January next year. "If we put on the brakes too quickly we will weaken the economy and the financial system," warned U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner, "and the ultimate cost of the crisis will be greater." (See how to plan for retirement...
...Christmas Carol cost a bundle, $200 million, and no doubt Disney would have liked a bigger start for their way-before-Christmas movie. But it registered the best first weekend of any Jim Carrey movie of the past five years in which he has been seen. (In the CGI-cartoon version of Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who, Carrey provided the elephant's voice.) And Goats opened stronger than any Clooney movie of this decade that didn't costar Brad Pitt. The Box certainly didn't measure up to recent Diaz openings, even middling ones. But, like Goats, it cost...
...research shows that 15 years later, support for health care reform still fluctuates based on how certain aspects of the legislation are presented—specifically, the public option and the cost to the individual. This is happening despite the fact that a majority of the American public believes that the nation needs health care reform, according to polling data...
...shortcoming in funds is partially due to an unforeseeable doubling in the price of fuel and utility costs in the past decade, but Luberoff noted that some of the initial cost predictions seem strange nonetheless, particularly the governmental assumption that health costs for workers would not increase over the eight-year period...
...cause "disaster." (A few years later, an overzealous reveler reportedly neglected to tear the pages out of a phone book and instead threw the whole thing out the window; it struck a passerby and knocked him unconscious.) By 1926, New York Stock Exchange officials had grown concerned about the cost of tossing miles of ticker tape out the window any time someone important came to town: they considered buying confetti to distribute to employees but decided against it. In 1932, another irate Times letter writer demanded that lobbing paper be "promptly and strictly banned," to be replaced by tossing flowers...