Billy Shaw was one of the kids I used to play pickup baseball with as a kid. Sometimes we only had a few kids, so we played a game where the batter had to choose his field to hit – either to the left or right of second base. Hit to the wrong side was an out. Regardless of the field Billy chose, he'd inevitably hit to the wrong side. He'd whine and cry about the rule and want it changed. So Billy recruited a bunch of bigger guys by lying about how our rules screwed him and ran us off the field so he could get his way.
Rising costs are alarming everyone in the industry. With labor, materials and energy shooting upward at staggering rates, a lot of operators who are in the middle of renovation or redesign projects are panicked that price overruns might ruin their budgets.
The law of supply and demand remains inviolate. It’s like the law of gravity
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