A. Johnson
A. Johnson
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Fewer cars are available, and the costs of shipping grain are up significantly in many areas. Just a few short years after BNSF strongly encouraged shippers to build facilities capable of loading 52-car trains, the railroad is now penalizing those same shippers.
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Eliminating state income taxes on working families with poverty-level incomes gives a boost in take-home pay that helps offset higher child care and transportation costs that families incur as they strive to become economically self-sufficient. In other words, relieving state income taxes on poor families can make a meaningful contribution toward making work pay.
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Programming costs continue to rise significantly. We're not trying to win a prize for the lowest rates. We are trying to have a price where we can effectively compete.
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of their high degree of interaction and the expanded distribution reach which enables to closely manage our distribution costs and increase our sales.
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Most of our products are transported by truck ... which would carry over to increased transportation costs for those products.
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I think people are finding that BART is simply more economical than driving. When you consider that BART costs 20 cents per mile compared with driving for 69 cents per mile, you realize that BART is definitely the best buy in getting around the Bay Area.
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We can build a 50-foot concrete wall around a refinery, it just costs a whole lot of money, ... That kind of storm is extremely rare. At some point, somebody said, 'This is a risk I can live with.
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From July until the end of December was one of the highest periods ever of increases for transportation projects. Labor costs are not an issue here - it's raw materials.
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It's all about timing and scheduling of the teams, ... It costs a pretty penny to do, but we look at it as trying to bring quality entertainment to the city we live in. A lot of people who live here don't ever get the chance to leave and see an NBA game. It's nice to see kids' faces light up when they see the players the first time.
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It's a combination of customers demanding price concessions at the same time materials costs are abnormally high. The same customers that are demanding price concessions are sending them less volume.
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It's a little more evidence that growth in the economy has downshifted a bit, but that's what happens when higher energy costs take money from people's pockets.
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We didn't come to this conclusion lightly. We looked at the pros and cons, and we believe the benefits are not enough and the costs are too great.
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You, me - everybody else is going to see it. The general consumer is going to see it - in the grocery stores, everywhere. You are going to see prices increasing. Shipping costs have gone up, and they are going to pass it on to the consumer.
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The more costs Wal-Mart can take out of the system, the more it's able to pass a portion of the cost saved on to the customer in the form of lower prices.