Word: stickering
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...Detroit was the calm reaction in Japan, whose share of the U.S. market has climbed from 15% in 1979 to 25% today. "It's not that tough technologically, but we'll need some lead time," said a Japanese auto-company official. He added that the new standards would raise sticker prices "only marginally" because Japanese firms typically rely on thinner profit margins than their U.S. counterparts...
EDUCATION: Sticker shock at private colleges...
...many consumers, generic drugs have been a welcome remedy for sticker shock at the pharmacy counter. Designed to work as effectively as their brand- name counterparts, generics often sell for half the price. Since 1984, when Congress sought to make generics more readily available by speeding up the Government-approval process, competition has skyrocketed -- and so has the opportunity for abuse. Now a yearlong investigation by the Justice Department and the Food and Drug Administration is uncovering evidence that some makers of generic pharmaceuticals falsified laboratory test results and paid off FDA chemists to gain quick Government approval for their...
...raise prices rather quickly. But instead of taking advantage of that, American makers raised their prices along with them," says Ron Tonkin, president of the National Automobile Dealers Association. This year buyers can anticipate yet another round of increases, ranging from 4% to 7% on 1990 models. To reduce sticker shock, the Big Three renewed incentive programs earlier this month, offering as much as 10% off basic prices. But such come-ons are losing their potency...
...House Armed Services Committee Chairman Les Aspin warned that Congress would never go along with the Air Force's plan to spend $8 billion annually -- more than twice the current SDI budget -- on the Stealth. At the more likely spending rate of $3 billion a year, said Aspin, the sticker price would soar to more than $1 billion for each plane...