Word: out-of-pocket
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...Isis members who want to participate in the planned trip to New York City must pay $60 out-of-pocket, according to an Oct. 17 e-mail from Gordon...
...monthly Social Security check, which comes to less than $1,000. The benefit barely covers her medications for heart problems and diabetes, which she says can cost her as much as $800 a month. The new Medicare prescription-drug benefit, she estimates, will still leave her with substantial out-of-pocket expenses. To pay rent, utilities, gas for her car and other living expenses, Dizik has continued to work since she turned 65. For 10 years, she was with Broward County Meals on Wheels, which provides meals to seniors, some younger than she is. But three years ago, when...
...Out-of-pocket costs for cars and computers are understated. Last year the average suggested sticker price for a passenger car rose $467, reports the Department of Labor. But because of improved brake, air-bag and theft-protection technology, which made cars more valuable, an increase of only $386 was built into the CPI in an effort to measure "constant quality," says Patrick Jackman, senior economist at Labor...
...libel awards against newspapers do not reflect an increased animus toward the press, in the opinion of Robert Sack, a libel attorney who represents the Wall Street Journal. He thinks that jurors get used to reading about large awards in injury or malpractice cases. Libel suits rarely show out-of-pocket losses, but "when the question turns on how much a man's reputation is worth," Sack believes, "round numbers will come to the juror's mind." What made a $50 million libel suit against the Boston Globe remarkable last week was a verdict that found five paragraphs...
Dobrow, who has criss-crossed the country studying young musicians, said she has incurred “very minimal out-of-pocket expenses” in her research. But she said that doctoral candidates sometimes do have to pitch in for their own travel to academic conferences...