If we could somehow call a halt to this intellectual arms race, Goldman would wind up with the same employees, but at lower cost to society.

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One alternative to Ares, proposed by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture of Lockheed Martin and Boeing, is to use modified versions of their existing Delta 4 and Atlas 5 rockets both to go to the moon and to resupply the space station, but at lower cost.

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High-voltage DC can carry power over long distances at lower cost than alternating current, but the transformers still cost too much to make the idea widespread.

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But at a 20% lower development cost, neither will they lose money.

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The NHS provides health care to all at a much lower total cost, but patients have less clout.

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Starting a dialogue like this may not solve everything, but it might help you get better results at much lower cost.

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The disruptors, like Aereo, start from a much lower cost structure (beginning at free) but also at an infinitesimal installed base compared to their legacy competitors.

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But there is a pilot program to increase payments for doctors who deliver high-quality care at lower cost, while reducing payments for those who deliver low-quality care at higher cost.

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If we could get the market straight so that customers were paying for it, I believe you could achieve at least as great improvements in health at a much lower cost and spread over a wider fraction of the population, but it is not easy to go from one market to the other.

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This not only decreased our bottom line, but we were also able to provide the same high-quality product to our clients at a much lower cost.

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