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...more advertising time and using cost-cutting methods to pay $3,000—half of the sponsorship costs. Because there will be no door charge, and any profit the Pub turns during the event will go towards paying the staff, it will be very difficult for WHRB to recoup its losses.“Unless people are willing to buy our 150 t-shirts, we will probably lose money,” she says. “This is for the Harvard community; it’s not just for us.”S. Adam Goldenberg...
...least Lo was in good company. David Price, a horse trader based in Hong Kong, reckons that at least a quarter of the thoroughbreds brought into the city turn out to be financial black holes. He believes owners should pat themselves on the back if they're able to recoup a horse's livery fees through prize money. Snagging a champion horse requires lots of luck. "All the things in a [winning] horse - courage, constitution, the will to win - are things you can't see," says Peter Horwitz, president of the Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners' Association of New South Wales...
...pricing of antiretroviral (ARV) treatments for AIDS and HIV is a particularly contentious issue. Drug companies say they need to recoup the billions of dollars spent on research, and argue that generic copies eliminate the rewards that fund drug discovery and development. (Drug patents typically expire after 20 years in the U.S., but that figure varies from country to country.) Some aid groups and scientists say the drugs' prices put them beyond the reach of those who need them most, and claim the companies put profits and patents before lives...
...will both likely tread carefully. Neither seems to have much to gain from upsetting their current relationship, but an exoneration of Megrahi would be a sign to the world that, perhaps, Libya has been unjustly penalized. Gaddafi's son claims that, for now, Libya has no plans to recoup the money it has paid out to compensate the victims...
...allowing him to play during a fifth year. But because of the league’s prohibition of redshirting, even for medical reasons, along with the ban on extra semesters for non-academic reasons, there was no way, short of enrolling in a Harvard graduate school, that Cusworth could recoup the full amount of time he missed his sophomore year.The choice of whether he wanted to finish his degree in the fall or the spring, though, was Cusworth’s alone. By choosing the latter, the center would have been able to compete in the most crucial section...