The second is that government intervention should be carried out at minimum cost to taxpayers.

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Ministers say this will secure clean and reliable electricity at a minimum cost to consumers.

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The move is designed to cause continuous disruption to the nation's postal service throughout the period at a "minimum cost" to CWU members, union officials say.

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They think it might cost something like a hundred billion Euros but it will actually be three or four hundred billion at a minimum.

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