It does say that many of BP's choices "were likely to result in less cost and less time relative to other options, " and it criticizes the lack of processes to ensure that safety didn't take a back seat to cost.
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This is because outside lenders fear that it will exploit its inside knowledge and the cost of enforcing contracts to repay less than it should.
It's therefore less risky and far more cost-effective for Compaq to back Linux on Alpha than it is to back Windows on Alpha.
In its liquid form, it occupies much less space than gas, making it easier and more cost effective to transport.
It weighs less than kilo and will cost around a thousand dollars.
What it did was take the same situation we have today and turn it into a much shorter recession with much less impact to the economy and cost to the taxpayer.
The advances meant it would burn 20% less fuel and cost 30% less to maintain than current models, Boeing promised.
The new pill will be cheaper--both because it will cost less than buying Zocor and Zetia separately and because patients will have only a single co-payment for the pill.
It is a fast way to go public, and much less expensive than actually doing the footwork and absorbing the cost of doing it the old fashioned way.
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It will cost the same to see Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows tonight as it will to see the much less popular film, Red.
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They raise the cost of economic activity and allow less of it to take place.
All of a sudden, they are a lot less poor, and it hasn't cost the West a cent.
"A smaller form factor is not only more attractive to many consumers, it will cost less to manufacture, ship and stock, " Piers Harding-Rolls, head of games at IHS Screen Digest, told the BBC.
It would be one part that would cost less and perform at a higher level.
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"The FDA program will only cause more confusion, increase the cost of enforcement and at the same time make it less effective, " Catizone said.
Regarded as a cost center, it typically receives little investment and less attention Even in the JPMorgan blowup, attention has focused on risk management and controls, not on the fact that the bank apparently could not determine its losses for several weeks.
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He then gets hosed by the insurance company because even though his long view was blocked by a large fence, he had the stop sign and his car, even though bought new, was a leftover and had to fight to receive less than half of what it cost to replace it.
"What a wonderful thing to make health care so low in cost and so convenient that we consume more of it, not less, " Christensen says.
"Oil cratering the way it has made alternatives less profitable and in less demand because of the cost differentials, " Miller said.
Grocery stores and food producers will see gains from lower fuel costs because it will simply cost less to get their products to market, with benefits accruing to companies like Hain Celestial (HAIN) and Whole Foods (WFM).
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The space shuttle program cost more and was less safe than the Apollo missions that preceded it.
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More importantly, it claims it can achieve this at less than a fifth of the cost and a third of the size of conventional systems.
For an airline with limited funds, distributing handheld tablets can cost significantly less than installing a built-in system, and it provides a high quality product with which customers are familiar.
The recovery from the 1990-1991 recession was faster, less costly (it cost taxpayers about 150 billion) and more effective (the economy rolled right into the next crisis) than either of the other two occurrences.
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In addition to their added IT benefits, Chromebooks also cost less than most high end tablets and according to the IDC, require 69 percent less labor to deploy and 92 percent less labor to support3.
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He told the BBC the legal fees had cost an "absolute fortune" and called for reform to make it possible for the less wealthy to protect their privacy.
As the firm shifts from relying on music videos to creating more original programming, it will suffer less from the cost inflation that has hit other film studios and television networks.
Driving imposes a heavier burden of externalities when it is done at rush hour (it adds to delays and is less energy-efficient) so such journeys ought to cost a driver more.
But the screw is so simple and cheap--most cost less than a penny apiece to make--that it has been easier to design around its deficiencies than to come up with a better model.
It takes less than five minutes to throw together in a food processor and the ingredients cost next to nothing, it's wildly versatile and it keeps for a week or two in the refrigerator.
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