Word: recouping
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Arnault swears that no matter how much he pays for his toniest brands, he will resist the impulse to recoup his investment by degrading them in that way. "If I'm patient, I can make it work at the high end," he vows. Just now there are more brands to buy, more couture houses to take over and more designers to hire. And don't forget, Arnault will remind you, he still has some unfinished business with a little company called Gucci...
...just need to recoup costs," said Gonsalves. "The rest, we're donating...
...many it seems like too much to pay. "It's hard to know who's the good guy and who's the bad guy in this situation," says TIME business writer John Greenwald. "On the one hand, these systems cost the banks money that they have a right to recoup. On the other hand, it's galling to consumers to be charged every time they use a machine." It doesn't help that consumers are not in a particularly forgiving mood when it comes to financial institutions, which are imposing cutbacks on service, often forbidding customers from speaking with tellers...
...interior for $845 at eCasketz.com Even when you tack on as much as $500 for overnight delivery, you'll end up paying less than the $2,400 some mortuaries charge. But the Net has its limits--you'll still need help getting into that casket. Undertakers have tried to recoup dollars lost to cut-rate casket sellers by raising their service fees, up 9.6% over the past two years, to an average of $1,182. These fees account for about a fourth of the typical funeral's cost, which has nearly tripled in the past 20 years...
...Republicans against a move to control drug costs, he could do his own party a great deal of good. At the same time, says TIME national economic correspondent Adam Zagorin, the President should recognize that this is a highly nuanced issue, with voters aware that pharmaceutical companies need to recoup a certain profit to cover past investments and to continue research into new drugs. "The key to this issue is balance," he says...