The costs of insurance are shifting from employers to employees, and important health decisions are increasingly being made by bureaucrats and pitchmen interested solely in profits.

"Implementation would be a huge technology and security headache, and the investigative burden and costs will shift to providers."

It's possible that Mr. Jackson's biggest costs may have shifted in early 2000 away from his shopping sprees to simply shouldering enormous monthly interest payments on his debt.

"The workers are explicitly getting the costs shifted back to them."

Examples are, lower costs, increased flexibility, shifted responsibility or increased convenience.

A cup of coffee may have only cost a $0.05 in the 1950s, but in the 1980s the cost shifted to $1.00 (ignoring inflation).

In recent years, furniture makers, automobile paint shops and other businesses seeking looser environmental rules and lower costs have shifted from the United States to Mexico.

As a result, the cost of low-income workers shifts a bit to business from the public sector.

For the first time in California's history, the cost of instruction is shifting from the current working generation to its children.

The cost of maintaining it will shift on Thursday to the federal government, which spent $42 million last year to keep up the other presidential libraries.