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...peaceful, well-run, seamless operation," she and her colleagues will have to come up with an answer to how the cash-strapped City of Los Angeles will eventually foot the event's large public bill. The councilwoman would not hazard a guess of what the memorial would cost, but she did use last month's Laker Pride parade as a yardstick, which was estimated to run a tab of about $2 million. Other estimates listed the Jackson total price tag at $2.5 million. (See the top 10 Michael Jackson moments...
...Perry says that while police costs are already budgeted in an emergency section of the city budget, other expenses like traffic control, sanitation and street services are not. She says she approached the Jackson family for their ideas about paying some of the bills. "I did reach out," she says. "I said, 'Is there any way to direct me to people who can assist, in Michael's memory, in deferring the cost of this event...
...finance professor at Northwestern University and one of the paper's authors. "It's very easy to do this in the U.S." Even though there are serious consequences to reneging on a home loan - including wrecked credit, not being able to buy another house for years to come, the cost of moving and the social stigma associated with being a person who does not honor one's commitments - lenders tend not to pursue former homeowners for the money they are owed because of the prohibitive cost of tracking down such people and suing them...
...Even if U.S. Navy warships quickly stepped in to keep the waterway open, traders and tanker captains would be spooked, and the cost of transporting oil would rise sharply. "It is a scenario anyone who looks at security of supplies considers," says David Fyfe, head of the oil-markets division at the International Energy Agency in Paris, which represents oil-consuming industrialized countries. "It would affect up to 12 million bbl. of oil a day." (See highlights from a debate between Joe Biden and Sarah Palin...
...Services recently started a three-year demonstration project that will provide bundled payments to hospitals and doctors at five sites for 37 common surgical procedures. The idea is that if hospitals and doctors are paid out of the same pot, they'll coordinate services to be more efficient and cost-effective. The results could help determine how aggressively the Federal Government will end up pushing the bundled-payment model onto the entire Medicare system...