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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...
...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...
...economic benefit of marriage isn't what it used to be. In a chapter of a book newly out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that the marriage premium has subsided since 1969. Maria Cancian, a professor of public affairs and social work at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Deborah Reed, director of research at Mathematica Policy Research, set out to study how the changing makeup of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. Considering how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce...