Here are some areas of common ground that Democrats are focused on, based on one document circulating among senior Democratic officials: Tax Exclusion The Senate bill includes a tax on high-cost, employer-sponsored insurance policies that Democrats say effectively ends the tax exclusion for high-end benefits packages in the spirit of Mr. McCain's proposal.
Stephen Roseman, founder of Thesis Capital, also agrees that high-end retailers will benefit from a rich customer base, even as he debates whether Coach and Tiffany qualify as truly high-end names.
This - in addition to other development strategies such as high-end tourism that benefit foreign capitalist interests at the expense of local communities - is the main motivation Haitian colleagues attribute to the so-called "international community's" support of the current status.
Recently, an Ivy League sociologist tried to convince Slate's more gullible readers that high-end prostitutes might actually benefit from the Wall Street meltdown.
The high-end job takes maximum benefit as its standard: the female employee needs to put her full energy and time into the job, and it is impossible to fulfill her domestic role in the family.
High-end services and lavish benefits are the weapons of choice of marketers hoping to attract ultra-high-net-worth individuals to their products.
Shopping under the influence has long benefited high-end specialty retailers — witness the wine-and-cheese parties that are a staple of galleries and boutiques.
Page A17 Business ONLINE MERCHANTS HOME IN ON IMBIBING CONSUMERS Shopping while drinking has long benefited high-end specialty retailers; now the popularity of Internet sales has opened alcohol-induced buying to the masses.
It will also have "high-end features and new benefits," many of which will focus on productivity, Mr. Ma said.
The schlock impression has changed with high-end brands such as Elizabeth Arden, Benefit, Lancôme, Vincent Longo, Lorac and Shiseido, on HSN.
