To cover out-of-pocket medical costs, some people set aside pretax dollars in flexible-spending accounts through work.
And use your employer's flexible-spending benefit, so you can pay for uncovered medical expenses with pretax dollars.
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He believed the tax-free treatment could lower health costs and thought everyone should have access to a flexible-spending account.
The Internal Revenue Service loosened the rules on flexible-spending accounts so consumers could use them to buy thousands of nonprescription medications.
Sure, leverage was a disaster at the peak of the bubble, as investors were buying overpriced housing, often with risky flexible-rate loans.
In the Nielsen survey, 37% of flexible-spending account users said they would ask their doctor about prescription drugs that could replace their over-the-counter medicines.
That is likely to discourage some patients from asking for a prescription, as the surcharge could outweigh the tax savings from using a flexible-spending account.
Even worse for the domestics, the new foreign plants are flexible--they can quickly switch from making SUVs to minivans or cars if the market changes.
While the government's policies on flexible-working have so far succeeded in giving more than a million people family-friendly hours, the vast majority have been women.
Many flexible-spending accounts come with a debit card, making it easy for consumers to draw down the money in the accounts when they shop at a pharmacy.
It would also do more to encourage the use of vehicles with flexible-fuel engines to provide American consumers with something they do not have: a real choice.
The company's biggest problem has been its flexible-packaging business, the smallest of the three main product groups, which has been hit by fierce competition in Europe and by poor management.
To have a fully flexible finished product, both parts of the display have to be flexible - the optical frontplane and the backplane, where transistors are - as well as the device's battery, the outer shell, the touchscreen and other components.
"The entire flexible-spending account thing is a waste of our taxpayer dollars, " says Jonathan Gruber, an economics professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a former paid consultant on the health law to the Department of Health and Human Services.
In the United States, new corporate forms (such as the Benefit Corporation, flexible-purpose corporation, social-purpose corporation, L3Cs and benefit LLCs) have recently emerged to better address the needs and goals of social entrepreneurs, but these changes are not standard across other countries.
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After all, the concept - creating flexible electronics and assembling them on equally flexible plastic - has been touted since the 1960s, when the first flexible solar cell arrays appeared.
The team of Professor Keon Jae Lee from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, KAIST has developed a high performance flexible all-solid-state battery, an essential energy source for flexible displays (see paper in Nano Letters: "Bendable Inorganic Thin-Film Battery for Fully Flexible Electronic Systems").
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Among them is South Korean firm LG Displays, which has just begun mass-producing fully flexible e-ink screens.
Creative Scotland said that moving companies from the previous system - known as flexible funding - on to project-based investments would continue to allow companies to plan for major projects.
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It would be better to demand lump-sum payments over flexible time-periods.
It keeps its eye firmly on its long-term goals while displaying flexible short-term pragmatism.
Some may remember Konarka, a Massachusetts-based company working on creating flexible thin-film solar that could be applied to everything from tent material to clothing to the roof of a bus.
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The dominant rigidity of on-premise ERP systems appears to be evaporating with the advent of more flexible cloud-based applications.
That seems to be the plan Wal-Mart Stores is undertaking as it unveils its new plan for a flexible workforce--one that will force store employees to adhere to a work schedule that bends to the demands of customer shopping habits.
BeoPlay H3 is a superior and comfortable in-ear headphone for people in action, while BeoPlay H6 is a super soft, flexible over-ear headphone.
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This means that they are more likely to be able to offer flexible night-time hours too.
He has introduced a more flexible two-year contract for firms employing fewer than 20 workers.
Agile development is a technology term that provides a model for flexible decision-making.
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Yeah, we get it, flexible electronics -- sans application -- are about as exciting as the circuitry under your keyboard.
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