Cost Control

A Tried-and-True Tool for Entrepreneurs: The Compounding Effects of Smart Cost Control

Frank Farwell | Posted 05.22.2012

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Frank Farwell

Are you dozing off yet? See, that's the problem. Cost control sounds so one-dimensionally simple it barely seems worthy of managerial-level discussion. Maybe that's why it rarely gets the attention it deserves.

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College Presidents Wary Of Obama Cost-Control Plan

AP | KIMBERLY HEFLING | Posted 03.31.2012

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WASHINGTON — Fuzzy math, Illinois State University's president called it. "Political theater of the worst sort," said the University of Washingt...

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Cost Containment Matters Too

Michael Kaiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Budgeting, Arts Management, Benjamin Franklin, Cost Control, Kennedy Center, Entertainment News
Michael Kaiser

The cardinal sin in the arts is to waste. Wasting money, wasting time, or wasting opportunities cannot be tolerated in a resource-constrained world.

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Counterfeit 'Public Option' Holds Americans Hostage to Inflationary Private Insurance Costs

Michele Swenson | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michele Swenson

Democratic leaders have short-circuited the reform "debate" and permitted the process to be hijacked by health insurance and pharmaceutical industries.

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A Second City Warning to Obama

Michael L. Millenson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Second City, Uninsured, Underinsured, Chicago, Political Communication, Cost Control, Rationing, Health Care Reform, Political Satire, Obama Community Organizer, Morality, Obama, Universal Health Care, Republicans, Chicago News
Michael L. Millenson

The fact that Second City comics in the heart of Chicago are successfully playing to GOP-fueled fears of rationing should raise a bright red warning flag at the White House.

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