Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Argeros attributed this year's high rebate to a decline in the amount of shoplifting, a tightening of overhead expense, and an exceptional financial year for the downtown Coop, which he called "a stellar performer...
...brassy chattering of radios. The chaotic chorus of American voices was tense but happy; America was in its element. "Give me an ETA on EC 84 . . . That's flour coming in on EC 72 . . . Roger . . . Ease her down . . . Where the hell has 85 gone? Oh yeah, overhead...
...nuclear-powered cruiser Virginia, part of an American flotilla that had grown to more than a dozen vessels with the arrival of the battleship New Jersey late last week, hurled some 600 rounds into the wooded hills above Beirut. For residents of the Lebanese capital, the shells zooming overhead produced a piercing whistle that sounded at first like some strange aircraft preparing for a landing. But moments later, the hills shuddered and burst into flame. Along the ridge that ascends abruptly behind Beirut, columns of smoke rose into the clear autumn...
Beginning at dawn on several days last week, Druze and Christian militiamen exchanged artillery fire in villages on both sides of the Beirut-Damascus highway. Ambulances, their sirens wailing, raced up and down the main road as shells whizzed overhead. Small-arms fire echoed in the hills a few hundred yards from the Lebanese Defense Ministry. Much of the time, Christian East Beirut was largely shut down, the streets empty, most shops closed. Shells and rockets fell on the predominantly Muslim southern suburbs as well as on the Christian areas along the coast to the north...
Among them: cataract surgery, tonsillectomy, breast biopsy, D & C (dilatation and curettage of the uterus), knee arthroscopy, vasectomy and facelifts. Essentially, the centers can perform any operation that does not require prolonged general anesthesia and extensive post-op care. Because they avoid the overhead costs of such services, the surgical centers can charge as little as one-third of what a hospital asks for a given procedure. Boasts Surgeon Darrell Holman, a co-founder of the Arcadia center: "We've streamlined our costs so that we're as efficient as a submarine...