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...Administration reports that coke prices in South Florida are on the rise. Three months ago, undercover DEA agents could buy coke wholesale for as little as $13,000 a kilogram. Today they can rarely bargain dealers to lower than $16,000. Some DEA agents believe dealers are trying to recoup losses. Cocaine seizures in Florida and the Caribbean have more than doubled in the past year...
...advertising-and-word-of-mouth strategy worked for Evita (1979), which opened to unenthusiastic reviews yet ran for almost four years. But it is not infallible: an additional $1 million enabled the 1985 Singin' in the Rain to survive almost a year, yet apparently did not recoup the show's $5 million- plus investment. Still, says Carrie's composer Michael Gore, whose credits include the movie Fame, "you can't produce a Broadway show without a reserve fund. That is my major dissatisfaction with this show...
...things we study is relapse," Schelling says. "Everybody's got the word that smoking is bad, and all sorts of people are trying to quit. But if you do relapse, how do you recoup your morale and do it again? That's what we want to figure...
...recoup his investment and time, Gilbert has proposed a novel way to sell scientific work which has important ramifications for university research; he believes he has the legal right to copyright his discoveries and sell them. Much like Dow Jones sells its stock quoting service to stockbrokers, Gilbert would place his genetic map in a large computer database and charge pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies an access...
...assistant secretary at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, preached what he practiced: he used his agency staff to type and proofread a commercial book of his titled, aptly enough, Privatizing the Public Sector. Some officials, having made financial sacrifices to go into Government, evidently felt entitled to recoup as much as possible. C. McClain Haddow, former chief of staff at the Department of Health and Human Services, was indicted last month for fraudulently obtaining $33,540 from the "T. Bear Foundation," which he helped create to encourage children to wash their hands...