Companies typically borrow money at less than their return on equity and therefore compound their return at the expense of lenders.
What we asked for was to be kept whole basically. And to make up for the revenue that we would have made had the ships been operated. And to pay for the expense of canceling 100,000 people and protecting travel agent commissions.
On the surface, you would expect that gas prices would draw people online, but I am not a big believer in that, ... Remember that people are cutting back on spending because of higher expenses such as fuel and lower consumer confidence.
Our biggest negative impact on operating costs was the expense we incurred to do all that maintenance work and the lost production while those units were down.
Our company has announced it is going to make a significant capital expense investment at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, but on the specifics of those projects I'm not ready to comment.
Other studies show that about 40 percent of young adults are uninsured at some time during the year following their graduation. With college expenses so high, the last thing parents and their children need is to get hit with unexpected medical bills.
We're just trying to cut every possible expense that we can. Most people just see Ritter Park and don't think about everything else we do. It's very complex and complicated and there's got to be a solution because I can't give up.
There is an incredible stand-still in the labor market. Well-meant protection comes at the expense of reduced labor participation.
There is an increasing willingness to take every expense short of salary and call it non-recurring.
There is an enormous amount of medical expense in this case. I imagine it is in the neighborhood of the mid to upper six figures, if not seven figures. And that's just medical expenses, not pain and suffering.