Word: recoups
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effects on the entire student population, Strauss says. Because credit card companies charge a nominal percentage fee on every purchase, Harvard would lose a small portion of each student's tuition paid by credit, thereby forcing the College to impose a flat fee across the entire undergraduate population to recoup the losses...
...headline he has been dreaming of for years: "Justice Department Sues Big Tobacco." Claiming that tobacco companies conspired to conceal the risks of cigarette smoking from the public and thus engaged in consumer fraud, federal lawyers will invoke the federal civil racketeering statute and ask for $25 billion to recoup taxpayer dollars spent to cover smoking-related health-care costs for veterans, military personnel, federal employees and the elderly through Medicare payments. Although under the law an award could be triple that if the feds can get a jury to see things their way, even $75 billion seems suspiciously like...
...arriving at CBS to replace CEO Jordan and move into his office suite. Karmazin's business strategy has been bluntly effective: pay top dollar for what he calls "oceanfront property"--prime stations in major markets, celebrities like Stern and Imus, the rights to the NFL--and then look to recoup the money by slashing administrative and staffing costs and running the tightest of ships...
That experience, she says, allowed her an opportunity to recoup from what she describes as an "unpleasant" high school experience in Redding, Conn...
...news last week was that Details editor Michael Caruso was fired even though Maxim-ization had helped the magazine to recoup several years' worth of circulation losses. The new hire is none other than Maxim's editor, Mark Golin, who came to the magazine just a year ago from Cosmo. (Conspiracy?) Details, he says, won't "become Maxim," though it will "certainly have women and beer in it." He is tired of the criticism that Maxim has dumbed the category down. "Is civilization really coming to an end? Come on, you can get pictures of women and donkeys...