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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Eric Flowers / The Bulletin
March 25, 2004
If vending machine prices could be compared to health insurance rates, a 50-cent soda in 1996 would cost just shy of a dollar today. A 75-cent candy bar would run almost $1.50. And those are some of the less dramatic examples.
For the past five years, employers in the private and public sector....