Word: droppings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Have you been able to do what Teri Hatcher could never do - drop the phrase fuhgeddaboutit on Wisteria Lane? Fuhgeddaboutit is always the subtext no matter what I'm saying. Even if I don't say, it's there...
...Another risk: GM CEO Fritz Henderson is under pressure from GM's new board of directors to turn around the company's fortunes quickly, and he has indicated the automaker is prepared to drop Hummer if it can't finish the deal relatively soon. "If it doesn't get sold, we'll close it," says a GM official. (See the best cars from the 2009 Detroit auto show...
...proposals have sparked grumbling among bankers, especially in Europe, because the requirements would crimp their profitability. JPMorgan this month estimated that, if key measures like increased capital requirements are implemented, the average return on equity of investment banks would drop by one-third. "It's out of the question to systematically increase layers of capital in the banks if there's no supplementary risk," says Ariane Obolensky, managing director of the French Banking Federation. But the tide is against such critics. As Stark of the ECB put it in a speech this month, "the simple statement that 'if banks...
...costs for everyone. Malpractice premiums make up less than 1% of U.S. heath-care spending. Doctors argue that "defensive medicine"--the extraneous care they provide out of fear of being sued--costs much more, but the data are unclear. Texas, for example, has not seen health-care spending drop since instituting award caps in 2003. While a 1996 study said caps could cut costs up to 9%, the Congressional Budget Office stated in 2008 that it had "not found sufficient evidence to conclude that practicing defensive medicine has a significant effect" on spending...
...shades of Crimson to put on our business cards, we’ve carried things too far.” Harvard’s endowment investments fell 27.3 percent in the fiscal year ending June 30, bringing its total value down to $26 billion—an $11 billion drop. Faust reminded audience members that payout from the endowment will decline by 8 percent in dollar value for at least this year and the next. Harvard’s other two income streams—tuition and fundraising—also shrank, with gift receipts down 8 percent. Over...