Aetna has stanched its losses by trimming expenses, raising prices and turning away unprofitable business.
So they must either cut their expenses, raise more money through taxes or fees, or borrow to pay their bills.
Watchdog groups say the travel expenses raise questions of propriety, given that taxpayers nationwide are on the hook for staggering shortfalls tied to double-digit investment losses.
Other expenses raise some eyebrows; Mr Edwards's haircuts, which he claimed as an expense, are one example, and Sarah Palin's campaign wardrobe, which cost the Republican Party some $150,000, is another.
THE Marshall Plan is sometimes seen as an early triumph for "conditionality" — that is, grants dependent on the recipient's cutting domestic public expenses, raising revenues and, often, firing "redundant" workers.
The town of Montclair, N.J., this year closed its budget gap through a mix of devices: trimming expenses, raising property taxes, and boosting fees on limousine and garage-sale permits as well as landscaping and arcade licenses.
But many companies in APSCU and its industry lost sight of that mission and instead created fancier higher education degree programs and, worse, relentlessly pursued profits to please investors, emphasized marketing over instruction expenses, raised prices through the roof, and deceived students and government overseers alike.
Senator Barack Obama's cameo on "Saturday Night Live," jesting at Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's expense, raised the question of who is winning the Lorne Michaels primary.
[underlining in the original] In the short-term, however, they are likely to lower gross margins, raise the Company's operating expenses and raise capital expenditures, resulting in lower earnings," Dell says in the filing.
A campaign to help Boushie's family cover the cost of the funeral and related expenses has raised C$21,000£12,60000), while another campaign has raised nearly C$14,000 to help the wife of the farmer accused of second-degree murder.
