The resulting distortions were increasing rates fast, along with the natural increases from good but expensive Massachusetts medicine.
Those of Pacific Biosciences of California, which makes a speedy but expensive machine, are down 75% from their year-ago peak.
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Meantime, Chambers seems to be trying to sell consumer products as if they were business gear: high quality but expensive.
Treatments to alleviate the symptoms of the infected, and to curb transmission to unborn children, are available - but expensive.
Moreover, since nuclear plants are cheap to operate but expensive to mothball, they are often run at full tilt even when demand for power slackens.
The weak recovery has slowed migration, but expensive, overregulated and dense metropolitan areas continue to lose population to lower-cost, less regulated and generally less dense regions.
Those valuable but expensive trials, where doctors design a careful experiment and then give patients either Vioxx or a comparator drug, could answer questions about Vioxx's safety.
Financing a new arena privately is very doable, but expensive.
An e-mail from one of Brown's clients must pass through a poky, clogged--though mostly free--"public" access point in California, rather than zip along the snazzy but expensive Uunet hub.
An e-mail from one of Brown's clients must pass through a poky, clogged--but mostly free--"public" access point in California, rather than zip along the snazzy but expensive Uunet hub.
Since NFL programming is an effective, but expensive method to reach an audience, it is important for advertisers to have all the analyzed data in front of them when making purchasing decisions.
The Navy, which aims to get half of its energy from renewable sources by 2020, has been buying biofuels in small but expensive quantities, as in four times the cost of conventional fuels.
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We need a national health-insurance solution, but isn't it sensible in the meantime to make sure everyone has a basic health plan before we give a few more people a perfect but expensive one?
The decision goes to the heart of a big controversy in civil law: To what extent can the government be held liable for failing to protect citizens against risks that are conceivable, but expensive and burdensome to protect against?
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He has also instituted new rules intended to rein in the deficit, but has exempted from them some of the Republicans' most cherished but expensive goals, such as further extending the temporary tax cuts agreed with the Democrats last month.
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Impressive, but expensive to update.
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The reason utility computing has stayed on the shelf for the past decade or so is that the tools available to aspiring cloud providers (originally called ASPs, or application service providers) were no different than the tools available to the enterprise at the time: high-performance, scale-up hardware systems that were powerful, but expensive and inflexible.
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The biggest solar thermal plant ever built is in the Mojave Desert of California and generates 80 megawatts. (The biggest single photovoltaic installation produces 12 megawatts.) Solar thermal power prices range from 11 cents to 15 cents per kilowatt-hour, making it more expensive than natural gas generation at its lowest price, around 7 cents, but less expensive during peak hours.
Several elegant old skyscrapers are crumbling slowly, too valuable to knock down but too expensive to restore.
Since many of these pensions go to the genuinely needy, that would be socially beneficial, but fiscally expensive.
He responded by saying he would be OK switching to a similar but less expensive plan for next year.
In 1967, the self-made American billionaire Daniel K. Ludwig took a bold but very expensive gamble in Brazil.
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Helping fathers and reducing low-income marriage penalties is a great idea, but really expensive, especially if spending is included.
This is fine for flying tiny microchips into Europe or America from Asia, but too expensive for clunkier goods.
But as expensive as it is, it is nowhere near the most expensive.
She was very tastefully dressed with minimal makeup, minimal but very expensive looking oversized pearls and a very lovely suit.
But, expensive floodlit matches aside, much of the one-day game is played by second-choice players in front of empty seats.
You don't have to dig deep to bring out data that quickly defines Google as not only valuable but very expensive too.
But their expensive menus put off many Scandinavians, let alone international tourists.
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