Word: consumerization
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In terms of health care choice, Bush has turned to tax exemptions. He has proposed to channel $60 billion into Medicare over 10 years, which will primarily go towards tax credits of up to $2,000 for the uninsured. Under Bush's plan, people would be encouraged to use their...
Nader's politics have changed over the years in a different way. In his early days, he disappointed many admirers by refusing to take an active stance against the Vietnam War for fear of reducing his effectiveness as a consumer advocate. In fact, he was thought of as somewhat apolitical...
Alan Blinder, visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution, a prestigious liberal-leaning Washington think tank, and vice chairman of the Federal Reserve from June 1994 to January 1996, asserted that the consensus forecast of most economists seems to be for gross domestic product (that is, total output of goods and...
Heinecke says he can't agree to the clause because pizza isn't his only business. It wasn't even his first. Four years after moving to Thailand in 1963, Heinecke borrowed $1,200 from a loan shark to open an office-cleaning service and a public relations company. He...
Coupled with the company's recent vows to clean up the diamond trade--tarnished by association with African warlords--the strategy may prove a spectacularly profitable act of reinvention. The firm's floundering share price nudged upward after the June announcement, and it got another boost last month, when earnings...