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• s  very expensive
  big-ticket items like cars and furs
  a big-ticket government program

• As consumers cut back on big-ticket purchases this year, many fix-it folks are busier than ever.
• And now the latest big-ticket item: a Michael Jackson painting by Andy Warhol.
• Alster calls these the "big-ticket items," running to the thousands of dollars.

• high-ticket

News & Articles

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• Road work season in full swing around McHenry County
  With a number of big-ticket road projects finished last year, McHenry County is embarking on another year of long-desired improvements.
  June 15, 2013 - Northwest Herald
• Google's Billion-Dollar Buy
  Our analysts weigh in on Google's latest big-ticket purchase.        
  June 15, 2013 - The Motley Fool
• Tickets on sale: Alton Brown Live!, Jill Scott
  Music and other big-ticket metro Detroit shows on sale June 7 and 8.
  June 14, 2013 - Detroit Free Press

Quotes

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• Mike Jackson in Forbes
  My personal view is that this idea that there's been no spillover from housing into other segments is just faulty,Jackson said. "We all know in an economic cycle that the consumer pulls back first, pulls back on big-ticket items, capital...
• Mary Hanafin in USA Today
  If I was ever in charge of producing another treaty, I would say strongly to everyone at the table: Would you put something into it that's a big-ticket item that you can actually sell to people? Because this was full of technical detail,said...
• Michael Jackson in Bloomberg
  There is a direct link between housing and the distress it creates for the consumer around big-ticket items,said Michael Jackson, chief executive officer of AutoNation Inc., in an interview July 26 from Fort Lauderdale, Florida.