• By building their own multimedia network, Qualcomm hopes that the carriers will skip the expense of building up their own infrastructure, and will instead pay for access to MediaFLO's network.

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  • In Saudi Arabia, for instance, the government is sparing no expense in building state of the art surveillance systems.

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  • The prohibitive expense of building liquefaction plants will prevent any completely speculative developments, says Umberto Quadrino, the boss of Edison.

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  • In the case of television, the scarcity of spectrum, and the expense of building a cable system, have been additional justifications for regulating ownership.

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  • The problems, of course, include the expense of building platforms in deep water, servicing them and building underwater transmission to bring the power to land.

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  • Smith and her client decided to take the long-term approach and not jump into any partnerships that may include short-term gains at the potential expense of building a worthwhile long-term portfolio.

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  • Another survey revealed that 78 percent of managers would reject an NPV (net present value)-positive project if it would lower quarterly earnings below consensus expectations, and 80 percent would focus on this short-term metric at the expense of building long-term shareholder value.

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  • In order to stop flood waters overwhelming central London and to save the massive expense of building fresh flood walls and defences, some land could be set aside to act as a safety valve, catching flood waters and storing them until the danger has passed.

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  • If we were justifying our expense as analogous to building a database of emails, then it was a database that only allowed you to access a tiny, randomly selected, subset each time it was used.

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  • Is it my imagination or did the rise of expense-account restaurants purposely building-in conversation-evaporating high-volume noise levels (partly by not building in the architectural elements that muffle them) coincide with the market run-up to 2008?

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  • What about the interest expense that you incur while you are building your dream house ?

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  • Packaging and shipping orders is a central expense for Amazon, which has been building warehouses to speed delivery times.

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  • Still, gross profit declined 2%, principally due to increased building material costs and selling, general and administrative expense rose 14%, primarily due to investments in personnel and other expenses related to plans for growth, including the start-up of its Lexington, Ky.

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  • We justified the expense as it seemed to be analogous to building up a database of email addresses of people that wanted to learn about our site and our products.

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  • The report posits that the most important goals in this context are jobs, human security and the justice system, even if that comes at the expense of more ambitious goals of countering prejudice and discrimination, building the broader private sector or improving democracy.

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  • Those costs get paid by increased premiums for the people who do buy insurance, or they get paid for through socialized costs and claim our tax revenues and come at the expense of other things that people might want to do, like building roads and bridges.

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  • In an unremarkable office building one floor above, Edward Anderson ignores a nasty head cold and scrutinizes the expense budgets of a handful of private companies.

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  • That means building an emergency fund to cushion the blow from a loss of income or surprise big expense, she says.

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  • He also drew worrisome parallels between the CTBT and the London and Washington Naval Agreements of the 1920s and '30s which served to restrain the democracies' ship-building programs while Germany and Japan flouted their terms, building larger and more powerful navies that had to be dealt with subsequently by the allies at great expense in terms of both in lives and national treasure.

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