Word: premium
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...Today's deals don't come cheap. Xerox's bid for Affiliated Computer Services, for example, represented a 33% premium on ACS's closing price on the previous trading day while Adobe's $1.8 billion acquisition of Omniture represented a 45% premium on Omniture's average closing price in the month leading up to the offer...
...already tackled substantial health reform could be better positioned than others. Massachusetts, the only state to have enacted universal health-care reform, already has a working exchange and many of the insurance-market reforms called for in federal legislation (such as guaranteeing coverage to anyone who applies and prohibiting premium pricing based on health status). Cantwell based her amendment on a program that already exists in her home state of Washington; called Basic Health Plan, it pools non-Medicaid-eligible low-income residents, steering them into less costly managed-care plans. Critics point out that premiums for these low-income...
...disproportionately favor minorities? I am a reasonable American with a bunch of formal education and life experience, and I am opposed to the current plan solely because I do not believe there is a way to pay for it, either individually or collectively. Wait until you see the premium you will be charged to cover your pre-existing serious illness--and everyone else's--no matter what it costs. Simply legislating something doesn't make it work...
Pittsburgh is just the second noncapital city to hold the event, after Montreal in 2000. But it shouldn't be too overjoyed. While the designation is certainly an honor, hosting the G-20 doesn't really have economic benefits. In addition to security concerns, the host pays a premium. To hold March's meeting of the G-20, London shelled out an estimated $131 million - a big number for any city to absorb, and more than four times the expected cost. With fewer than 4,000 people expected to attend the Pittsburgh summit, experts say the local economy should...
...Tickets Something else about Jones' stadium is big: the prices. Like baseball parks and basketball-hockey arenas, football stadiums have for decades been evolving into places where an increasing amount of the real estate is devoted to premium-priced seating. In that department, Cowboys Stadium is the new frontier. About a third of the base seating capacity of 73,000 consists of suites - 325 of them - and high-priced "club seats" with access to various bar-lounges at escalating levels of luxury. Those seats require that you first buy a 30-year license, which costs between...