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...next big target. For every employee who makes $75,000, a company typically spends $30,000 more in benefits. So for employees who still have jobs after cost-cutting layoffs, the potential for more pain lies ahead. Health insurance is traditionally the revenue drain that budget hawks focus on, with costs averaging $10,000 per employee (about $6,000 for singles and $14,000 for those supporting a family). "I expect that by January, the number of people without health insurance will rise above 50 million as companies scale back," says Bruce Raynor, president of Unite Here, a labor union...
...Coke has focused on supplementing its signature soda brands with water (Vitamin Water), juice (Odwalla) and other noncarbonated drinks, answering critics who lambasted the company for being a lightweight in the nonsoda segment of the beverage business. To keep up its momentum, Coke recently bought a 40% stake in Honest Tea, an organic-bottled-tea upstart. Pepsi, which owns Gatorade and Tropicana, was already well positioned, so it steadily ramped up its focus on snack foods. Its Frito-Lay division now accounts for 56% of Pepsi's annual retail sales. Over the past decade, that product diversity has helped Pepsi...
Paulson didn't seem to think that that was something he needed to get involved with. Same with fiscal stimulus legislation. Paulson shepherded the last stimulus bill through Congress in January. Not this one. "My focus is on the financial sector, on getting credit going, getting lending flowing," he said. "I can't imagine anything that would have a bigger stimulative impact." In other words, he really doesn't want to take on anything more at this point. Can you blame...
With Caputo ranked 4th in the nation and O’Connor at 5th, the co-captains will undoubtedly make their marks on the mat throughout the winter. But, as he has insisted from the outset of preseason O’Connor stresses team focus before individual goals...
...Instead, it will be part of something that the Crimson’s fans have bad memories of—special teams.Granted, I’m a little biased. I’ve grown up watching Virginia Tech, a team that has moved from obscurity to national prominence by focusing on special teams, patenting a style called “BeamerBall” that lives off finding hidden points in the kicking game. It’s the only school I know where the fans stand up and pay rapt attention whenever the special teams come on the field...