Apart from the expense-report issues, exactly what services was Ms. Fisher performing for H-P?
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Bluntly put, the expense-adjusted performance advantage of switching to cash or fixed income is questionable.
They have learned -- at great and continuing expense -- that they have to compromise.
Apart from expense-account lunches and dinners, my wife and I limit ourselves to more affordable wines.
"A lot of the steakhouse business is expense-account business, and people's expense accounts are scaled back, " he says.
Second, an expense-conscious global marketplace has rendered IT even more of a cost center, inviting closer financial oversight.
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Compensation--usually Lehman's biggest expense--was 49.5% of revenues and holding steady with prior quarters.
Mr. Schwieterman says expense-account travel is "an emerging business" for the bus industry.
They added the firm's "no-expense-spared clean up" of the River Lark demonstrated its ongoing commitment to the local environment.
For any child who is not, the system will--at its own expense--provide the tutoring to bring that child up to speed.
Concur Technologies, which makes expense-management applications, began its transition to the cloud in early 1999, in the heart of the dotcom boom.
No wonder so many established companies have hopped on the expense-options bandwagon.
As usual, the global industry's most closely watched rosters of 1998 honors include many Asian airlines and hotels, a welcome boost in these expense-trimming, stay-at-home times.
Esther Rantzen, a celebrity candidate running in a seat whose previous incumbent had been among the most egregious expense-fiddlers, won a humiliatingly small number of votes.
We have had some nincompoop frontbenchers and some expense-fiddling backbenchers, and even some who managed to qualify under both categories, but our political system is basically sound.
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While most nations acknowledge the reality of climate change, questions persist about its pace, severity and expense -- both of fixing the problem now and paying for its effects later.
By easing immigration for high-skill workers -- many of them trained in the United States at taxpayer expense -- we get a return on our investment and retain industrious and innovative people.
The expense-cutting push is risky, Brown says, because of the complexity of the bank's operations and the lack of guarantees that cutting costs in the middle and back offices will fix things long-term.
"The assumption is going to be that, as an organization, you will already have your data in line, " said Jerry Schmits, a conference panelist and director of product marketing for expense-management consultancy Cadence Network.
But the Seasiders lost just once in their remaining nine games as they came from nowhere to sneak into the last play-off spot - at Swansea's expense - on the final day of the season.
Is it my imagination or did the rise of expense-account restaurants purposely building-in conversation-evaporating high-volume noise levels (partly by not building in the architectural elements that muffle them) coincide with the market run-up to 2008?
After hearing from CNN's Anderson Cooper that Southwest Airlines offered her and nine others an all-expense-paid trip to Southern California to go to Disneyland, she described it as "awesome" but seemingly too good to be true.
That is because they are targeting the financial support explicitly at newsgathering rather than pouring it into the general budget where it may be frittered away on expense-account lunches and the like, or on trying to keep alive an increasingly obsolete technology, paper publishing.
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Historically, low-expense funds have out-performed high expense funds over time.
They often include extra loads, wrap fees, 12b-1 fees, and often consist of high expense actively-managed mutual funds or even annuities versus lower expense equivalent fund options.
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But in addition, the non-profit receives direct operational expense off-setting services that strengthen the organization and enable that non-profit to then serve a greater number of clients in need.
When investigating in ETFs, look at expense ratios--the cheaper the better.
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