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...historic magnitude of this budget is undisputed. Nationalized health care, cap-and-trade emissions regulation, an end to some agricultural subsidies, government loans, and, of course, tax hikes would have each—let alone all—been unheard of three years ago. Yet desperate times call for bold measures, and the recession demands the policy reform and funding plans of this budget...
...that could not be found anywhere in America. Cardullo-Tavilla added that her warmest memories of Cardullo involved “food, food, food.” She said her father was a devoted food connoisseur who always insisted on using the best ingredients. “It was unheard of to have a frozen dinner, to have Wonder bread, or Chips Ahoy cookies,” she said. Cardullo-Tavilla added that Cardullo’s commitment to quality earned her the respect of not only Harvard Square and the Cambridge community, but also the entire food industry...
...sales begins to trickle out company-by-company, it is becoming clear that a $199 handset or a $999 PC are not on the consumer's shopping list. Nokia (NOK), which has 40% of the world's handset market reported that global sales would contract in 2009. That is unheard of. It means that fewer people are upgrading old phones in developed markets and fewer people are buying a first phone in developing countries...
...Nett, the paper's online arm, had pretax earnings of $23.4 million on revenues of $55 million, up 44% over 2006 and accounting for just over a third of VG's total profits. Online ad revenue is also over a third of VG's total. That's simply unheard of for most newspapers...
...Last year was retail’s worst yet, and the Wall Street Journal reported that high end retailers like Saks have resorted to slashing prices to combat sluggish sales. Still, Saks saw January sales plummet by 24 perecent. Neiman Marcus is expecting a previously unheard-of quarterly loss for the holiday shopping period...