<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><xml><meta><title>plime.com : plime.com : Search Results : cost : ATOM 0.3</title><link>http://www.plime.com/</link><description>You can use this XML spec to create a desktop widget or other application (i.e. Flash visualization). Please share it with us in our forum and we'll link it here!</description><language>en-us</language></meta><items><entry><title><![CDATA[The High Cost of Poverty]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/115054/1/" /><id>115054</id><summary><![CDATA[The High Cost of Poverty]]></summary><issued>2009-05-17T21:47:29+01:00</issued><modified>2009-05-17T21:47:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The poorer you are, the more things cost. <br/>More in money, time, hassle, exhaustion and menace.<br/>That's what some people who have never lived below the poverty line don't understand.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) Development Kit Cost Cut In Half]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/49419/1/" /><id>49419</id><summary><![CDATA[Sony PlayStation Portable (PSP) Development Kit Cost Cut In Half]]></summary><issued>2008-02-04T21:08:18+01:00</issued><modified>2008-02-04T21:08:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The move follows Sony's announcement in November that it would be reducing the cost of development gear for the PLAYSTATION 3 by almost 50 percent, in an attempt to make game creation for the consoles more affordable for small and independent game developers.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Sailing With Few Frills or Inhibitions]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/11668/1/" /><id>11668</id><summary><![CDATA[Sailing With Few Frills or Inhibitions]]></summary><issued>2007-02-26T14:12:46+01:00</issued><modified>2007-02-26T14:12:46+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[easyCruise &#8212; is the two-year-old low-cost, no-frills cruise line that is an offshoot of easyJet, the low-cost, no-frills European airline. <br/><br/>Cabins cost as little as $19 a night!]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cost of War]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/5742/1/" /><id>5742</id><summary><![CDATA[Cost of War]]></summary><issued>2006-11-14T09:15:27+01:00</issued><modified>2006-11-14T09:15:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[This site shows the running total of the U.S.taxpayer cost of the Iraq War.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Obese workers cost employers more, study finds]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/17686/1/" /><id>17686</id><summary><![CDATA[Obese workers cost employers more, study finds]]></summary><issued>2007-04-24T12:24:31+01:00</issued><modified>2007-04-24T12:24:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Obese workers may cost their employers more, filing more workers' compensation claims for injuries on the job, and then more frequently going on to become disabled.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Bickering by kids may cost Aussie parents]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28473/1/" /><id>28473</id><summary><![CDATA[Bickering by kids may cost Aussie parents]]></summary><issued>2007-07-22T23:09:56+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-22T23:09:56+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A recent trend in the Australian legal system has seen parents being ordered to stop bickering in front of their children or face possible legal action.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Tattoos cost couple an apartment]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/36946/1/" /><id>36946</id><summary><![CDATA[Tattoos cost couple an apartment]]></summary><issued>2007-09-30T10:58:00+01:00</issued><modified>2007-09-30T10:58:00+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Texas couple learned an apartment complex has a dress code when their application was rejected because of the husband's tattoos.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/45632/1/" /><id>45632</id><summary><![CDATA[What does 315 Billion Dollars really look like?]]></summary><issued>2007-12-31T13:44:18+01:00</issued><modified>2007-12-31T13:44:18+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[We hear dollar figures thrown out about the cost of things every day.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cost of a wedding]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/67110/1/" /><id>67110</id><summary><![CDATA[Cost of a wedding]]></summary><issued>2008-06-29T21:33:06+01:00</issued><modified>2008-06-29T21:33:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[How much does the average person pay for a wedding in your town?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Cost of Treating Obesity Soars]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/129236/1/" /><id>129236</id><summary><![CDATA[Cost of Treating Obesity Soars]]></summary><issued>2009-07-28T12:02:39+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-28T12:02:39+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Obesity in the United States now carries the hefty price tag of $147 billion per year in direct medical costs, just over 9 percent of all medical spending, experts report.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/57466/1/" /><id>57466</id><summary><![CDATA[Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts]]></summary><issued>2008-04-08T21:44:38+01:00</issued><modified>2008-04-08T21:44:38+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[The International Monetary Fund said Tuesday that financial losses stemming from the U.S. mortgage crisis might approach $1 trillion, citing a &quot;collective failure&quot; to predict the breadth of the crisis.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Wants For Sale]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/arts/l/63327/1/" /><id>63327</id><summary><![CDATA[Wants For Sale]]></summary><issued>2008-05-27T09:52:55+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-27T09:52:55+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A genius artist couple started a website where they paint the various things they want, then sell the paintings for the real life cost of those things, then buy the things with the money from the paintings.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[How I Got Well in India for $50]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/133350/1/" /><id>133350</id><summary><![CDATA[How I Got Well in India for $50]]></summary><issued>2009-09-20T17:28:07+01:00</issued><modified>2009-09-20T17:28:07+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[&quot;The Indian healthcare system is an anarchic hodgepodge, with little insurance, little regulation and a range of services offered by hundreds of government-run, trust-run and corporate hospitals. The care it produced for me was fast, effective, courteous and cheaper than American medicine, even when adjusted for the lower cost of living.&quot;]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Friday slackers cost firms 50 million ]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/30046/1/" /><id>30046</id><summary><![CDATA[Friday slackers cost firms 50 million ]]></summary><issued>2007-08-03T09:24:16+01:00</issued><modified>2007-08-03T09:24:16+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[ok so it not blue but it is friday related and some of the ofice people drive blue cars..]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[The Cost Efficiency of Transportation]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/128026/1/" /><id>128026</id><summary><![CDATA[The Cost Efficiency of Transportation]]></summary><issued>2009-07-16T14:48:06+01:00</issued><modified>2009-07-16T14:48:06+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Chart comparing the efficiency of various transportation methods.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Penny prices pinched by rising cost of metal]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/60929/1/" /><id>60929</id><summary><![CDATA[Penny prices pinched by rising cost of metal]]></summary><issued>2008-05-07T07:36:29+01:00</issued><modified>2008-05-07T07:36:29+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A penny, which consists of 97.5 percent zinc and 2.5 percent copper, cost 1.26 cents to make as of Tuesday. And a nickel -- 75 percent copper and the rest nickel -- cost 7.7 cents, based on current commodity prices, according to the Mint.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[True Cost Of Sending Text Msgs]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/technology/l/79357/1/" /><id>79357</id><summary><![CDATA[True Cost Of Sending Text Msgs]]></summary><issued>2008-10-13T13:11:59+01:00</issued><modified>2008-10-13T13:11:59+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Sending an amount of data that would cost $1 from your ISP would cost over $61 million if you were to send it over SMS. <br/>In actuality, the true cost of a text message is zero(0)cents.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[FYI standing on a whale in New Zealand will cost you $30,000]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/world/l/131339/1/" /><id>131339</id><summary><![CDATA[FYI standing on a whale in New Zealand will cost you $30,000]]></summary><issued>2009-08-22T00:36:27+01:00</issued><modified>2009-08-22T00:36:27+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[A Paekakariki man is calling himself a whale rider after a brush with a southern beauty but the joyride could cost him $30,000.<br/><br/>Simon O'Donnell said he paddled out to the whale off the Kapiti Coast then stepped on to its back as it swam underwater. Standing on the whale was &quot;just insane&quot;.]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Precast concrete fence walls cost different than cedar wood fencing]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/28543/1/" /><id>28543</id><summary><![CDATA[Precast concrete fence walls cost different than cedar wood fencing]]></summary><issued>2007-07-23T14:31:14+01:00</issued><modified>2007-07-23T14:31:14+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[In Riverside or Los Angeles, California, wood fences and vinyl fences are going to cost a very different price than other kinds of fencing materials like precast concrete fence walls. How do you decide what type of fencing to install?]]></content></entry><entry><title><![CDATA[Lowest Airfare Can Sometimes Cost You More!]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/plime-com/l/93809/1/" /><id>93809</id><summary><![CDATA[Lowest Airfare Can Sometimes Cost You More!]]></summary><issued>2009-02-10T11:10:04+01:00</issued><modified>2009-02-10T11:10:04+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Today's business climate has forced most companies to operate in the &quot;lean and mean&quot; mode. This is probably evidenced most with everyday expenses such as business travel. While our willingness to help the company reduce necessary costs for travel and entertainment by securing the lowest possible airfare available, the reality is that oftentimes the lowest airfare is not necessarily a cost savings for the company but an additional expense.]]></content></entry></items></xml>