Here's my question: What will happen to employer-provided health benefits? I'm wondering if the penalties will simply encourage companies to drop it. Think of this, many companies employ many people in human resource departments to manage benefits. Wouldn't it be simpler for executives to pay a price per employee and send their employees adrift into one of these exchanges? They wouldn't even have to be feel guilty...
Bye Bye Benefits
Jane M. Von Bergen, Philadelphia Inquirer & Daily News: Business
Tue, 03/23/2010 - 9:21am
BING NEWS:
- Lions clinch NFC's No. 1 seed, first-round bye with win over Vikings on Sunday night
The Detroit Lions won Sunday night's regular-season finale over the Minnesota Vikings, clinching their conference's No. 1 seed, a first-round bye and home-field advantage throughout the playoffs -- ...
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From time to time in the NFL playoffs, teams that earn a bye week have a hard time firing up the engines against a team that played and won in the wild-card round.
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- What is the origin of the phrase ‘By the by...’?
The related phrase by the bye, it reports, means. in passing; by way of digression; apropos to the matter at hand. Interestingly, this dictionary does not offer by the by as a variant spelling for by the bye. This definition clarifies Charles Dickens's meaning in the following sentence from Dombey and Son (published between 1846 and 1848):
01/6/2025 - 5:30 am | View Website - meaning
A bye dog will be selected by the field marshal and will run the remaining time left of the brace. 19. Any participant which is absence at start of his brace will be allowed ten minutes to show or will be automatically disqualified for that brace and brace mate will run with a bye dog.
01/5/2025 - 2:11 am | View Website - In a tournament, do I get a "by", a "bye", or a "buy"? [closed]
According to the OED, bye is correct word. b. The position of an individual, who, in consequence of the numbers being odd, is left without a competitor after the rest have been drawn in pairs. (OED also points out a few other uses of bye in sports, but with different meanings.)
01/5/2025 - 2:04 am | View Website - word choice
"So much time has gone bye" would be (at best) a sort of pun, based on the personification of the elapsed time. (picture time as a person, waving good-bye as it goes past. You would say that time has gone 'bye!'). You would have to write this using quotes around the word "bye" to make it clear that it was meant to be a play on words, and not a ...
01/4/2025 - 7:13 am | View Website - "By the Bye": Etymology and Usage [duplicate]
"By the bye" comes from an old sailing term. "Sailing by the bye" means sailing close-hauled (ie close to the wind direction). If you weren't sailing on the bye, you would be sailing large, sails out and away from the wind's direction. To refer to all forms of sailing one would say "bye and large".
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