Word: recoupment
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with a large gun tossed casually in the middle. ("This is the bedroom; this is the bathroom; this is the gun.") If CenTrust's mortgage on this property becomes an asset of the Resolution Trust Company, the agency formed by Congress to liquidate failed S&Ls, the RTC should recoup at least a good portion of the loan...
...NOTEBOOK: The Bruins will try to recoup their hopes for an Ivy title when they visit Beren Tennis Center today at noon...Brown features Anna Sloan, the nation's 29th-ranked player, and Anne Fitzpatrick, the nation's 37th-ranked player...The Bruins were without number-three singles Serena Wu against the Big Green yesterday. She is expected to be able to compete today...President Derek C. Bok is expected for the match, fulfilling his promise at the Columbia game two weeks ago. Crimson, 6-3 at Beren Tennis Center...
...risk for businesses is not so much that their systems will someday break down -- that is almost a given -- but that lingering computer anxiety in the buying public will make it harder for firms to recoup their investments in high-tech equipment and services. Banks and brokerage houses live in fear that one or two well-publicized computer failures will alienate their customer base, triggering mass defections to their competitors...
...million for each new medication in the 1970s to $125 million today. Regulatory agencies like the U.S. Food and Drug Administration can take up to seven years to approve a drug application. That shrinks to 14 years the maximum amount of time in which a company can recoup its investment before its patent on a new substance runs out, and thereby pressures the firm to hike the price...
After a medication has lost its patent protection, many companies raise the price to recoup some of the losses caused by the immediate drop in market share. A company can forfeit as much as 30% of that share in the first year after generic substitutes become available, but many physicians continue to prescribe only the brand-name medications they have come to trust and rely on. When generic versions of the potent heart medication Dyazide were introduced in the mid-1980s, the drug's inventor, SmithKline Beckman, raised the compound's price...