Word: digitalizing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...doom and gloom surrounding growing U.S. health-care costs continued last week, when a much watched survey of company health-insurance plans revealed a double-digit increase in family premiums for the fourth year in a row. Despite a slight pullback in the rate of growth, premiums over the past year jumped 11.2%, outpacing inflation and growth in wages by about five times. According to the survey, conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and Health Research and Educational Trust, that hike was equally borne by companies and employees, whose share of the costs rose an average 9.8% for singles...
...giving out your Social Security number unnecessarily, are not a surprise. But what is illuminating is the number of institutions and even government agencies from which you can withhold your number, as well as the opportunities you have to replace your Social Security number with a different ID digit on your driver's license, employee files and academic records...
...trim and crystal beading showing up on every tweed coat and charmeuse evening dress. Thanks to the weak dollar against the euro, prices for these clothes are up a whopping 20%, but so are sales. Houses like Hermes, Louis Vuitton, Christian Dior and Gucci have all reported double-digit increases in the second quarter...
...even more controversial instance, at least 53% of all U.S. high-fashion footwear manufacturers stand accused of marketing gloves as shoes and selling them at radically marked-up prices. A Footwear Council official's argument that "hands and feet are both five-digit extremities and both feel best wrapped in leather, so what difference does it make?" has been rejected by consumer advocates as a cynical manipulation of the facts. Fair Play for Footwear, the consumer group, points out that shoes made out of gloves fit badly and bunch up around the toes. "It isn't fair," says a Fair...
...surveys. Even with the more playful features, the marketing messages are seeping through. After Wendy tried a Neopets game with a tie-in to Avril Lavigne's new CD, she told her mom she wanted the music. After an advergame's launch, says Neopets' Dohring, surveys have shown double-digit increases in the number of users who have tried a product embedded in the game...