All the cost benefit of buying consumer was erased in one cycle of purchasing in less than 1 year.
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The executive who acts bears all the cost of his own action but reaps only a fraction of the gain from those actions.
Almost all the cost of a drug is in the development and the complex hardware required to concoct the chemicals that become the medicine.
And where all the cost growth in Medicaid is, or much of the cost growth is, is long-term care for elderly people and disabled people.
Putting different size features on different chip planes raises questions as to whether such a design can reap all the cost benefits of a fully 14nm part.
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Transatlantic anti-trust immunity is a holy grail for European and American airlines, allowing carriers to effectively operate as one without all the cost and rigmarole of a full merger.
This is because almost all the cost of making a drug is the fixed one (a billion dollars or so) of finding the chemical and setting up the vats to brew it.
The Amazons of the Web can offer all the cost advantages and speedy delivery options they want, but without a physical presence, you still have to wait for your product.
In the absence of possible remedies, the OFT doesn't yet want to put the Competition Commission and the accounting firms to all the cost and bother of a lengthy and expensive probe.
Recently there was an article in The New Yorker that talked about all the cost savings and how important they are going to be in terms of bending the cost curve over the long term.
But Saudi Arabia will not want to bear all the cost, so it will insist that other big producers, such as Iran and Venezuela, should not only agree to further cuts of their own but also implement them.
So shutting down and throwing folks out of work is the only option left, all while the cost of doing business keeps rising, they say.
People whose incomes are around the poverty level could see almost all of the cost of their insurance subsidized, while people at the upper end will get only a small discount toward their premiums.
But it has been well known for a long time that the rate didn't really cover all of the cost of operating the typical vehicle, especially a new, expensive one with higher first- and even second-year depreciation.
For example, the government, as a condition of bearing part or all of the cost of reducing the principal on a given loan, might have insisted on receiving some share of the future appreciation in the value of the property in question, perhaps by issuing a second mortgage that had to be paid off upon a sale.
After the Cuban missile crisis I asked both McGeorge Bundy and Robert Kennedy if they would tell me how much that single evaluated piece of photographic evidence was worth, and they each said it fully justified all that the CIA had cost the country in all its preceding years.
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Some final salary schemes are still free - your employer will pay all of the cost of your benefits - but this is rare nowadays.
Likewise, the world recognized the need to confront Saddam Hussein when he invaded Kuwait -- a consensus that sent a clear message to all about the cost of aggression.
Now it will be further delayed because of the all too predictable cost overruns on the Olympics.
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If you were talking about all the other aspects, the cost would be even greater.
All the talk about the social cost of traffic congestion is a canard.
What fascinates me about this is that the story illustrates the basic economic problem that all recycling faces: the cost of collection.
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All makers of multiple sclerosis drugs have patient assistance programs to help pay for the drugs in cases where all or part of the cost is not covered by insurance.
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Those fees are then added into the cost of all goods, effectively forcing people who pay with cash to subsidize the cost of credit card rewards programs.
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Most economists would agree that the ability for subscribers to avoid directed advertising increases the cost to all subscribers because the value of that subscription list has been reduced because it now consists of a smaller population of persons who may be interested in a product based on their interest in the contents of a subscription.
The sagging gold price has tarnished all but the lowest-cost projects.
You must avoid at all cost the idea that you can manage learning several skills at a time.
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