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...council allocated $2,475 for the event and hopes to recoup the entire amount with the proceeds from the evening...
...enemy right now isn't the competition as much as the economy. Any recession could deal the company a double blow: first by hammering sales and then by increasing its credit-card delinquencies, which are already running at an uncomfortably high rate of 5%. Yet Martinez says Sears could recoup any losses simply by beating up on competitors. "Should we encounter a recession, there's still an awful lot of fragile retailers who are at very high risk of failure," he says. "That represents a market-share opportunity for us." Sears bullying the competition--the Big Store really is back...
Although the council allotted $1,625 in its budget for the Thanksgiving bus service, it will not recoup the expenditures from student fares. But O'Mary said the loss is not significant because the shuttles are a student service...
Moreover, five percent is an embarrassingly low percentage for the University to provide, especially considering the percentage it offers its other employees. As Mallinckrodt Professor of Applied Physics William Paul articulated, "It seems anomalous to me that we regard as a gain to recoup a five percent contribution...when members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW) receive a minimum 6.5 percent...
...seems anomalous to me that we regard it as a gain to recoup a 5 percent contribution [for younger faculty]...when members of [the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers] receive a minimum 6.5 percent," Paul said...