Rivals mutter that Deutsche Post's huge investment in non-letters businesses is designed to ensure there is enough work for the 33 state-of-the-art package-sorting centres that it built at great cost a few years ago.
In 2014 it intends to launch, at a cost of a few million dollars, a set of small space telescopes whose purpose will be to seek out asteroids which are easy to get to and whose orbits return them to the vicinity of Earth often enough for the accumulated spoils of a mining operation to be downloaded at frequent intervals.
But the focus is now on smart cards, which would ration subsidised petrol to a few litres a week, with excess consumption being paid for at the cost of imports.
The tenge had remained relatively stable over the past few months, but at a very high cost.
If the roofer breaks his arm he may be back on the job at a cost to the underwriters of a few thousand dollars.
If the new clubs cost him a few strokes at the wrong time, it wouldn't be worth it.
What they lost in a few minutes one terrible night in October will take more than a year to recover, at a cost of tens of millions of dollars.
Preschool, for most just a few hours a day in the mornings, can cost more than studying for an engineering degree at Michigan, and much more at some very selective schools.
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Mr. Lynam says he dissuaded the youth by pointing out that any cheating would cost Uncle Sam a few hundred dollars at most.
But now, for the first time, ministers are questioning whether the right to buy has not become a lucrative windfall for a few at the expense of the many in need of low-cost housing.
When you aggregate all this it yields the prediction that the eurozone is - on balance - likely to hold together (just), but at an enormous social and economic cost for Spain, Greece and a few others.
Only a few of the worst poisoned places were cleared up, at great cost, and the rule left some urban spaces derelict, encouraging development into previously untouched land.
At the heart of the issue is whether a health system that once had few cost controls is now being driven by too many, in some cases to keep shareholders happy with fat profits.
But if that happens at the cost of their job, relationship or home, it merely defers for a few months the problem of what to do when they come out, making it more likely they will return to crime for lack of alternatives.
An energy source that can make an impact on that market, even at a few percent, has an annual market of tens of billions of dollars, several times the lifetime cost of the Iter experiment.
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