Patent lawsuits between bitterly competitive smartphone makers, though common, cost money and hurt publicity.
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Different as they are, one thing all funeral rites have in common is cost: nowhere are they getting cheaper.
The art of corporate strategy is to capture the cost-saving and revenue-enhancing benefits of having many different businesses under the same corporate roof while limiting how much the problems of that common housing cost the corporate parent.
To be sure, southern European countries are running huge trade deficits with the northern tier (especially Germany), but as long as all are tied together by the common currency, internal cost and price adjustments (deflation in the south, inflation in the north) will be slow and painful, and will do little to spark growth for Europe as a whole.
While some unions have wanted to keep the disputes separate, others have been pushing for a "junction" of the two protest movements under a common theme of the high cost of living.
The first option reinforces the precedent of backing the stability of the common currency at any bailout cost but ignores the rise of German bailout fatigue in an election year, while the second option threatens to break that hard-fought stability apart.
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What all those approaches have in common is that they could actually cost more over the near-term.
"I concluded fluoridation is a safe, cost-effective and common sense approach to promoting public health, " said Nick Fish, Portland's City Council Commissioner.
Its cost-income ratio, a common measure of efficiency in the industry, is a giddy 78%.
What do federal subsidy rip-offs for green energy and Chicago low-cost public housing politics have in common?
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If we repeal ObamaCare, we can start over with common-sense market solutions to lower the cost of health insurance.
The cost of sensor technology, a common component of medical devices, has also fallen "exponentially" in recent years, according to Vivek Wadhwa, director of research at Duke University's Center for Entrepreneurship and Research Commercialization.
The incident highlights the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multi-story factories are common because of flooding risks and high land cost, according to Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
The fire highlighted the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multistory factories are common because of flooding risks and the high cost of land, said Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
The incident highlighted the dangerous conditions workers face in Bangladesh, where multistory factories are common because of flooding risks and the high cost of land, according to Kalpona Akter, executive director of the Bangladesh Center for Worker Solidarity.
The one-to-one link between the peso and the dollar has restored some faith in recent years, removing the thousand-per-cent inflation common before the 1990s, but at the cost of exports which are priced out of their target markets.
The only common use in cardiology for MRI scanners, which cost millions of pounds each to install, is in the diagnosis of babies with congenital heart defects, where exact details of the layout of the tiny heart are vital to successful surgery.
Other common reasons: Reorganization or restructuring of a company, cost cutting, and bankruptcy.
But one common roadblock to going solar is the sizable upfront installation cost.
But currently, the more common concerns for users lie in wi-fi's cost, patchy coverage and network security.
The important advantages from this Consortium are a global ecosystem of low cost phones and network devices that work off a common standard.
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The common arguments against packing more fivers into cash machines included the greater cost to companies that sorted and supplied banknotes.
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The cost of mis-selling Payment Protection Insurance, in common with other high street banks, continued to burn a large hole in the accounts.
One possibility is that Ohio citizens may simply be more willing to seek help rather than let infestations worsen (a common and harmful response, given the stigma of bed bugs and cost of eliminating them).
For example, when the housing market was on fire and double-digit gains were common in many areas of the country the BLS claimed that the cost of housing was going up by around 2% per year.
Let's ask real questions about the human cost of big-time college sports and the submersions of common sense that have to occur to gain entrance to the party.
But it also carries a cost which may be borne in the future as 3G networks become more common.
Now it is common for studies to be conducted in many countries, often taking advantage of the cost savings available when doctors and patients live in emerging markets like India or parts of Russia.
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Such mood swings are common among investors in this capital-intensive industry that has a hard time earning its cost of capital.
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