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...APPROPRIATE INSURANCE If you move state-to-state, your belongings will be insured for 60¢ per lb. So if your 70-lb., $5,000 flat-screen TV gets smashed, you'll recoup all of $42. You'll be better off buying coverage through your home insurer. Industry experts say it's usually a better product. --With reporting by Jonah Freedman
...cronyism and other inefficiencies in its keiretsu. But suppliers, in both the U.S. and Japan, have been more willing to invest in equipment to manufacture new technologies--such as hybrid electric-gasoline engines--out of confidence that Japanese automakers won't abandon them, or the technology, before they can recoup costs. The Big Three now want to outsource more R. and D. to suppliers, but Detroit has made low cost a priority, tending to negotiate short-term deals and drop contracts with partsmakers if a better offer emerges--resulting, sometimes, in mutual acrimony...
Zicarelli is one of many burned individuals with a keen interest in the nearly $400 million restitution fund set aside for investors last week as part of the final, $1.4 billion settlement between 10 Wall Street firms and securities regulators. He knows he may recoup only a small part of his loss--even $400 million won't cover collective damages estimated to run in the billions...
Brilliant's big thinking isn't enough to convince some skeptics. Seybold says it would take 72 people connecting to an access point every day for three years to recoup the cost of constructing it. And if each access point covers only a 300-ft. radius, that's going to leave a lot of urban America outside the Cometa canopy...
...economy, with 1.6 million people laid off in the past 24 months and near record consumer debt, credit problems are hitting or threatening many who have always paid their bills. Often collection companies pay creditors pennies on the dollar for the right to collect delinquent accounts, then try to recoup that money and more...