Games are still a feature of the modern Christmas but, very sadly, those excellent, cheap pastimes such as knucklebones, cards and dice have been shoved aside by expensive, profit-making, electricity-draining horrors such as the Nintendo Wii, the DS, the PS3 and the evil Xbox.
But Danish powerhouse team Simon Rasmussen, Zenia Jaeger, and Jesper Lund are an exception to the publishing world's aversion to those expensive, profit-losing passion projects of yesteryear.
And our next Speaker of the House, John Boehner, made no bones about taking donations from the student loan industry when he was minority leader, the lenders that make college even MORE expensive, profiting from interest rates that we subsidize.
For those who made the shift to more expensive cloth, profits have surged.
Bapat said the network of web servers and data centres that store online information is becoming more expensive, while profits come under pressure as a result of the recession.
Customer acquisition and retention became very expensive, and profits suffered.
The automaker added 100 billion yen to operating profit by selling more of its expensive higher-profit models, while cost cuts also contributed 60 billion yen.
Unfortunately, far too many students enrolled in expensive for-profit schools end up dogged by ruinous debts, with little in the way of skills or credentials to show for their efforts.
Drastic cutbacks at San Francisco Superior Court could be a boon to the expensive, for-profit dispute resolution industry, as people with the means to do so increasingly decide to pay for their own judge to resolve divorce, child custody and other legal battles.
So, while partisan bickering – between members of Congress who have among the best health and benefits packages in the US – has shut down the government, the populace of the United States is still straitjacketed into a system of expensive, for-profit health insurance.
