Word: incurring
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...concept took root in Britain, where there's no tax on gambling winnings but where capital-gains taxes can run as high as 40%. Betting transactions also don't incur the .5% duty the British government levies on stock transactions and are free of fees and brokerage commissions. Increasingly, investors are using spread betting not just to make quick and large gains on price and market swings but also to hedge their investments. For example, if you want to keep shares in your portfolio as a good long-term investment but think the price may fall in the short term...
According to the statement, such violations will incur "immediate and firm action, up to and including no longer purchasing goods from the vendor...
People seem to have lost sight of the bottom line: musicians incur costs to record CDs, and many people support families with less-than-glamorous jobs to put these albums out. You can't convince me that a college student who is able to download a whole CD for free on his computer is still going to run out and purchase that recording. Fanning is a punk who is making money off other people's labor. TRACY PASEMAN Issaquah, Wash...
Politicians, not wanting to press the public purse, have historically failed to fund intern positions, precisely because they can. No matter what housing, food, and transportation expenses interns incur, not to mention the opportunity cost of lost wages, there will always be those who pay (or whose parents pay) out of pocket for the experience...
...caught up in an election-year circus, has decided to attend congressional hearings set for this week. He has promised to release all company documents showing what Ford knew and when it knew it; his counterpart at Bridgestone/Firestone, CEO Masatoshi Ono, will also be there. Both are sure to incur the wrath of politicians fed up with what they view as stonewalling. "This whole thing stinks," said Representative Billy Tauzin, the Louisiana Republican who is chairman of the House Commerce Subcommittee on Consumer Protection. "You can't tell me someone at Firestone or Ford didn't know they had serious...