Word: grinch
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mean we love each other any less," says Batt. "We just want to do what's right for the Christmas spirit." Batt's a nice Santa for his son. But for companies that are counting on Dad's splurging on Mom, consumers like Batt are nothing but the Grinch...
...after years of experience in the throes of fiscal maelstroms, Kirwan said she understands that she often needs a light-hearted approach to the challenges of cost-cutting—namely, in the form of a stuffed Grinch doll that she sometimes brings to her office...
...don’t have to make a heavy-handed statement about the constraints facing us. I can just show people the Grinch, and that’s a good way to just remind them that there are some hard choices to be made,” Kirwan said. “But if we approach them together in a spirit of shared responsibility, then we can often come up with a solution...
...whether she plans to relocate the Grinch to University Hall, Kirwan said, “That might be a little bit over the top for the first week...
Politics, of course, is the main reason Obama is trying to sound more like Santa and less like the Grinch. Cutting costs ultimately means cutting payments to drugmakers, hospitals, doctors, insurers and other influential health lobbies, so it's understandable that he hasn't dwelled on it. Providers like the Mayo Clinic have demonstrated the promise of high-quality, low-cost care, and mounds of research as well as books like Shannon Brownlee's Overtreated have documented Orszag's less-would-be-better thesis. But to laymen it can still sound like typically empty government promises to weed out waste...