The costs are borne up front but the benefits accrue over time.

ECONOMIST: Letters

Moreover, some regulators worry that the credit risk and market risk which banks have traditionally borne is ending up elsewhere in the economy.

ECONOMIST: Open wider | The

Eighty-seven people have now died from the mosquito-borne illness, up from 66 the week before, said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

BBC: West Nile virus death toll in US jumps by a third

But the report concludes that U.S. government agencies haven't provided unified guidance to contractors about their tax obligations, allowing the Afghan government to "exploit the inconsistencies" by seeking revenue from contractors, driving up the costs that are often eventually borne by American taxpayers.

WSJ: Kabul's Tax Levies Raise Flags From U.S. Watchdog

The bullet to bite is so large that we're more willing to dribble out the price of sending out repair crews, and to put up with the far more substantial costs borne by individuals and businesses that go without power for hours, days and sometimes weeks.

CNN: Don't treat snow as an emergency

Vast ship-borne imports of iron ore, coal and bauxite make up other raw ingredients for Chinese growth.

ECONOMIST: Banyan

The fear of families that there would be a huge cover-up, and lurid headlines from newspapers was borne out.

BBC: Hillsborough report: Your reaction

"We would put up our firefighting response against any airport in the country, as borne out by repeated citations in National Air Traffic Safety Board reports, " Port Authority PBA President Paul Nunziato said in a statement.

WSJ: Gov't: 4 NY area airports have training violations

However her critics argued that Ms Truss had omitted the extra costs to the Dutch system borne by grandparents - who were already caring for their children - entering the system as child minders and scooping up state funding for a role they were already playing.

BBC: Ministers 'plan childcare change'