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• Tethered to the Cost Curve

  
  The Opinion Blog — Authority: 139
  Thursday’s editorial contemplates the fact that, in a dishearteningillustration of how Washingtonworks, the “massive overhaul” of health care just isn’t going to have mucheffect on most Americans. Democrats have made much hay thisweek over a report released Monday that says their health-reform ...
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• Landing in Hilo

  
  Mel's Internet Universe Weblog — Authority: 100
  This is a video clip of Hawaiian Airlines flight 342, Boeing 717-200, N479HA flying into Hilo and landing at the airport on Novmeber 24, 2009. This was shot on my last trip to the Big Island this month. I paid $49 to fly each way from Honolulu to Hilo and back. This month for my next trip to Hilo airfares have ...
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• Fuel Poverty

  
  Conservatives: working for Moreton and Leasowe all year round — Authority: 424
  One of this Government’s big promises was to tackle fuel poverty but, sadly, it’s not happening.  The number of people who are struggling to pay their bills or who severely limit their home energy usage due to money worries, is rocketing. Earlier today, I attended the Wirral Fuel Poverty Forum.  Wirral’s Home ...
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• Grocery Shopping Cost Of Living Shopping Prices

  
  HEALTHY LIVING TIPS — Authority: 142
  The cost of living has become painful. One trip to the gas station and grocery store will clearly put you in touch with this pain. As painful as the $4.00 per gallon for gas is, it represents less than 3.5 percent of the family budget. Their food purchase is almost 4 times as much in [...]
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• Stimulus Stimulated Much of Nothing in Illinois

  
  American Conservative Daily — Authority: 504
  The Chicago Tribune has an interesting story that shows that Obama’s $787 billion stimulus really didn’t do much by way of creating any new jobs in Illinois. Though Obama is counting “jobs saved” as some sort of success story, the fact is few jobs have been created and nothing will be sustainable after the ...
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• World Food Production Up – Hunger Too

  
  Irresponsibility — Authority: 104
  Posted by Irresponsibility As the First World frets about how to fight the Christmas flab the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports: “ In 2008 the number of undernourished people in the world increased by 40 million “. Not, as you might think, because of climate change, crop ...
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• Food banks go high-tech to feed the hungry

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Food banks across the country are undergoing a high-tech revolution, adopting sophisticated databases, bar coding, GPS tracking, automated warehouses and other technologies used in the food industry that increasingly supplies their goods.It’s a long way from handing out macaroni and canned soup from a church ...
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• Reducing the cost of living – the Lean way

  
  The Online Citizen — Authority: 528
  Jeisilan Sivalingam How can we become more efficient and effective while at the same time reduce costs? In these incredibly tough budget times, you would think government agencies would be trying to emulate private enterprises and be working extra hard to find ways of doing things more efficiently. ...
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• Why is customer service getting so bad in New Zealand?

  
  Avalon's Blog — Authority: 129
  Just this last year – companies in New Zealand seen to have gone absolutely doolally with their customer service. As in there isn’t any. Its always been one of the things I really appreciated about life here – that customer service was generally top notch – so much so that it was really noticeable when [...]
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• It always ends.

  
  Contrariwise: Literary Tattoos — Authority: 92
  I know, I know.  Regular updates will be back soon.  For now, an ominous tattoo for everyone to read too much into. Ron’s tattoo is from Neil Gaiman’s Death: The High Cost of Living .  This is Ron’s story: I broke up with my ex girlfriend in 2007; she was my high school crush (I’ve known her for ...
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• The Ups And Downs Of Broadway

  
  Steve On Broadway (SOB) — Authority: 466
  The Ups And Downs Of Broadway As those of you who follow my tweets on Twitter know, I follow Broadway box office totals the way sports fans follow the scores. I like knowing whats up and whats down, the shows that are making the most gains, as well as those teetering on the edge of closing notices. Fortunately, I ...
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• Charts of the Day

  
  Pollytics — Authority: 425
  First up, the obligatory Opposition leadership speculation chart. Next up, a few people have asked whether anyone runs a “Country heading in the Right/Wrong Direction?” question in the polls and how it stacks up. Well, Morgan does and it pretty much walks hand in hand with PM satisfaction ratings. ...
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• Beware of nails

  
  A New Life In Costa Rica — Authority: 130
  If your tires scream when you round a blind turn you might want to check em. They may not just be low you could easily have picked up a nail as we did. Weve talked to several people lately whove had the bad luck of picking up a clavo, nail...
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• Cost of living for pensioners leaves CPI in its wake

  
  Lending Central — Authority: 139
  The inflation rate was 1.3 per cent in the past year - unless you’re an age pensioner, in which case it was 2.4 per cent, official figures show.In the past five years, the consumer price index (CPI) has risen by 16 per cent, but most age pensioners would not be surprised to find official figures [...]
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• Argghhh – why all these “extra” charges???

  
  Avalon's Blog — Authority: 129
  My perennial favourite of course being the patently ridiculous “Automatic Payment Loading Fee” the bank charges me to do their job for them and set up a standing order – but just this week I have seen three almost as ridiculous examples of spurious rip offs.First goes to Ticketec. Now they always add silly ...
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• Work At Home Ideas Home Based Business Opportunities

  
  Make Cash Online Today — Authority: 155
  The cost of living is increasing day by day almost everywhere the world. Hence, both folks ought to go for a job. However it becomes difficult to pay time with the children. Work at home helps those that need to stay at home to look after their children and conjointly wish to stabilize their financial position. ...
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• Comparing A 9 To 5 Job With Working At Home Doing Affiliate Marketing

  
  This Job's For You — Authority: 135
  Compare what you will exchange for a 9 to 5 job in the office to becoming an affiliate marketer working from home and making money from internet affiliate programs for free. In a 9 to 5 job in an office your promotional aspects are limited unless you are one of the few exceptional wiz kids [...]
  2 weeks ago

• Cost of Living – Apparel Crisis

  
  39thandbroadway.com — Authority: 552
  Recently, a friend received a “Remember When” booklet on her birthday.  For those that don’t know, they are fun little pamphlets from the year you were born. They’re filled with news, photos, advertisements and other hilarious events form your particular birth year.  Well, this one contained a rather ...
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• Wisconsin Taxpayers Reject Wisconsin Act 28 Fee

  
  The Liberty Tree Lantern — Authority: 132
  State of Wisconsin Taxpayers UNITE! Taxpayers of Wisconsin join ol’Capt. Karl with this Civil Remedial REJECTION of “sneaky” taxation by The tyrants of The State of Wisconsin.   Either they face us with their taxes directly and clearly or we don’t pay them!  Don’t put them in ultility bills that we ...
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• How Much Did It Cost in the 1960s?

  
  In My Mind's Zen Garden ~ cultivating enlightenment thru music, technology and culture — Authority: 125
  Last month I wrote a post about what things cost back in 1950 . I mainly wanted to compare prices back then to current prices today. I grew up in the 1960s listening to The Beatles , eating TV dinners in front of the “black and white” television set, watching I Love Lucy , and enjoying life without internet ...
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