Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Charging people a dollar for a meal or for some modest item off a retail shelf may seem like a gimmick to pick up a penny a share for the next quarter. It is a good deal more than that. When a dollar is all that someone can spend, that person doesn't care if his purchase increases the company's earnings...
...Actual Retail Price: Fairly uncertain. That first item may mean no exhibition games in random states next year or sleeping in buses for all we know...
...Details from the Administration's budget proposal show that it still contains a $250 billion line item for TARP funds which is currently identified as a "placeholder." That does not sound like a lot to money people when compared with the $3.4 trillion budget, but that is only testament to the extent to which the public is inured to fantastic sums of government spending. The $250 billion is such a casual amount in the eyes of the budget's authors that the White House said "It is there just in case that money may be needed." (See pictures...
...fully understood until one is in the file room, according to Anderson. “Every drawer gets so full that you can’t put anything in it,” he explains. “If you’re trying to file this one item, you have to pull out five folders to get one item in, and then jam all five back in.”After his years of running this essential part of the process, Anderson is familiar with everything that could go wrong—and has a preemptive solution...
...danger is that he will be forced to use his political capital on this rather than the economy, health care, cap and trade, education, immigration, etc," says James Thurber, director of American University's Center for Presidential and Congressional Studies. "It sets yet another agenda item for him in a very crowded list of priorities...