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Economists are worried that companies are reaching the limit of being able to transfer energy-price increases to their customers in the form of surcharges. FedEx just raised its fuel surcharge on air deliveries from 12% to 13.5%. Even local pizza parlors, which have been adding a dollar or two to the bill, will reach the push-back point if the upward trend continues. "The pain at the pump this summer is going to be on truckers, taxi drivers, limo drivers, airlines, shipping companies. The question is, Do they pass it on?" says Joe Stanislaw, an independent energy adviser...
...merit; we view our achievements as a statement that we belong among our forefathers, such as John F. Kennedy ’40, John Updike ’54, or Senator Al Gore ’69. But it is exactly that tradition of success that should limit our hubristic interpretation of our accomplishments. Our alumni have made a lasting impression on the world, and we students benefit immensely from that history. We might think that we are smarter and more ambitious and more important than students at UC Berkeley or Illinois State, and that...
...people over time, instead of for specific medical events, reduces the burden of illness by focusing on high quality preventive care. We need "managed care" as it was originally intended to be - the good kind, not the evil, mutant twin that just tried to cut costs, restrict choice, and limit available care. Correctly conceived, "managed care" addresses the real needs of patients over time and place, guiding them through the technological thicket of modern medicine, and making sure that they get exactly what they want and need, exactly when and how they want and need...
...trade” proposal like RGGI under which each industrial facility would be allocated a certain number of “emission credits,” with the total number of credits set by the government. Plants that emit less than their credit limit of greenhouse gases could sell their unused credits to other companies. Whatever the means of addressing climate change, Browner said that something must be done. “Inaction is something that EPA administrators understand [because they] have to deal with the consequences of inaction everyday,” she said, adding that...
...Kessler. The name might mean little or nothing to the average Harvard sports fan right now, but in less than a year, she could be in the middle of a mid-ice pile as the Crimson skaters celebrate a national championship. Who knows? The sky is most definitely the limit for these unknown, but obviously talented, recruits.How about football, a sport in which recruiting is as highly publicized nationally as any other? Some 250-pound 17-year-old who has just recently received his acceptance letter could become the cornerstone of a dominant Ivy championship squad in 2009. Why, just...