Word: recoupment
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...country where wages average about $2.60 an hour, that's all the market will bear. Even Europeans pay less for drugs than Americans do, because their governments control the price. In the largely unregulated U.S. market, drug companies have successfully defended high prices by arguing that they need to recoup tens of millions of dollars in research costs...
...students have described the proposal--designed to help recoup the costs of maintaining the communications medium--as "outrageous...
...development at Brown & Williamson, appears to be mighty fearsome indeed. B&W is going to great lengths to discredit him, while lawmakers are paying close attention to his testimony. As Mike Moore, attorney general in Mississippi, which (like Minnesota, Florida, Massachusetts and West Virginia) is suing tobacco companies to recoup millions of dollars spent treating smoking-related illnesses, puts it, "He knows where all the bodies are buried...
...sister was fired (involuntary resignation) from her job at the Internal Revenue Service while she was a recovering cancer patient and was never told that she was covered by the Americans With Disabilities Act/Rehabilitation Act. She was not given enough time or assistance to recoup from the surgery before being forced back to work. Nor did anyone in personnel inform her that she may have been eligible for temporary disability, even though she did ask however ineloquently...
...police, which prosecutors replayed during the criminal trial. By turns calm and combative, Simpson firmly maintained his innocence: "I did not commit these crimes," he said. "And it took all of my life savings, virtually, to prove that, and it shouldn't be that way." In an effort to recoup some of those savings, Simpson then repeatedly gave the 800 number to purchase his $29.95 video about the case...