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  • The full-freight option wouldn't require another network to offer anything to an online firm, but that firm would have to buy Comcast-NBCU's entire channel lineup and pay about the same as a cable or satellite firm would.

    Comcast and NBC: Did the Feds fold? Rob Pegoraro 2011

  • This is a fight about whether a minimum-wage worker, say a single mother working as a janitor in a hospital to support her kids, will have to decide between paying full-freight for her birth control or having that extra $60 bucks a month for her kids' school books and after-school snacks.

    Stephanie Schriock: Straight Talk: Keep Family Planning Accessible to All Women, Not Just Some Stephanie Schriock 2011

  • This is a fight about whether a minimum-wage worker, say a single mother working as a janitor in a hospital to support her kids, will have to decide between paying full-freight for her birth control or having that extra $60 bucks a month for her kids' school books and after-school snacks.

    Stephanie Schriock: Straight Talk: Keep Family Planning Accessible to All Women, Not Just Some Stephanie Schriock 2011

  • It stinks to watch people we love facing major financial struggles because they got sick or can't afford the $13,000 full-freight yearly premium for a family of four.

    Harold Pollack: Hey, Young Activists: Where the Heck are You on Health Reform? 2009

  • I had also written and spoken of the possibility of a ferry to Yankee Stadium, but at the time the state's Department of Transportation had invested millions of dollars in the Oak Point Link, a proposed full-freight access line that would cut a swath across the Harlem River slips by Yankee Stadium.

    Robert David Jaffee: Baseball Before the Fall 2009

  • Because we're paying -- they're paying 35 percent, full-freight, no evasions or escapes from the taxes.

    CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2008 2008

  • He hired a Wall Street bank, Lazard Ltd., to analyze GM's financial condition, and to assess objectively whether saving GM meant sacrificing such UAW shibboleths as full-freight health insurance, guaranteed medical benefits for retirees, full pay for laid-off workers and the like.

    Two Heroes of Detroit 2008

  • Because we're paying -- they're paying 35 percent, full-freight, no evasions or escapes from the taxes.

    CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2008 2008

  • He hired a Wall Street bank, Lazard Ltd., to analyze GM's financial condition, and to assess objectively whether saving GM meant sacrificing such UAW shibboleths as full-freight health insurance, guaranteed medical benefits for retirees, full pay for laid-off workers and the like.

    Two Heroes of Detroit 2008

  • And we pay full-freight for the crap we put with and the stress we experience!

    "Banning cupcakes is almost like an assault on the national identity." Ann Althouse 2006

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