The common culprit: healthcare costs with Medicaid being the biggest driver.
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Like many of his German and continental peers in government and finance, Dombret is likely in favor of maintaining a common currency at all costs.
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Another common perception is that it costs less to adopt internationally.
What the two sides of the Coasean coin have in common is that high transaction costs prevented a freer-flowing market for labor and talent from prevailing.
In this, she too shadows Mr Coase, who argued that those who advocated government ownership of common resources ignored the transaction costs associated with collecting taxes.
To restate what ought to be obvious: weak as some of the continent's economies now look, the benefits of being part of the world's biggest and richest common market still outweigh the costs.
This is the way to make money in the auto business: lots of high-priced vehicles off a common platform, which holds down costs.
Organizations that rapidly adopted these (and other) new solutions actually achieved superior performance, and rapidly saw their costs decline as these common platforms gave higher productivity at lower prices.
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President Hollande believes in "solidarity", where the debt of eurozone countries becomes common debt, so reducing the borrowing costs of the weaker countries.
So that's why the company will build up to 800, 000 midsize cars and car-based crossovers off of one common chassis, saving billions in engineering costs.
Dividing the costs per unit is a common practice for analysts, since no one knows at the outset how long a car program will last.
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Handling each of these transitions separately without a set of common standards and best practices not only costs us valuable staff time it also poses a burden that can deter contractors from competing for our business and wastes millions of taxpayer dollars.
How long before video games join the long list of other common addictions with their associated social and personal costs?
Common causes of slipping margins include increased product costs, increased shipping expense, finance costs, sales and discounting or inventory shrinkage due to theft or waste (food business).
The most common reasons behind bankruptcy filings are health care costs, divorce and periods of unemployment, according to Robert Lawless, a professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, who was critical of the law in testimony before the Senate.
Otari's run-in with hackers may be an extreme case, but its experience underscores a common plight of business: total ignorance of telecom costs.
The agreement splits maintenance costs on home exteriors, the garage and common areas evenly among the three couples.
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Common sense instead of strict adherence to ideology should guide costs savings.
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Asking volunteers to replace paid staff has been one common solution offered by councils to keep libraries open while cutting costs.
The common refrain: Rotating audit firms every few years would raise costs, reduce the familiarity of accountants with a company's books and impair the quality of audits.
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Nielsen, a research firm, found that the two most common reasons Americans gave for not buying groceries online were delivery costs and the desire not to have to wait for a delivery.
If employee costs are 10% of expenses, a fairly common situation at places like retailers that hire many minimum wage workers, that means it would take a 1% increase in selling prices to pass along the increase in the minimum wage to the customer.
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As a result, costs have become so inflated that they are now a common subject of litigation in their own right.
But the idea of a common bond to help weaker countries, which would raise the financing costs of stronger ones, may be a non-starter.
Put simply, the opportunity for joint acquisition of a largely common aircraft would be eliminated, adding substantially and unnecessarily to the costs and the time required to field urgently needed airlift assets.
Another common complaint, especially among medium-sized firms, is that it costs so much to list on an American stock exchange.
None of these factors bode well for consumers' confidence as they struggle with common living expenses, such as higher home-heating fuel and gasoline costs.
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By forcing the carriers to pool their operations and offer a common price for the full journey, such incentives disappear, and the ticket costs less as a result.
The omission of owner-occupier housing costs in the CPI should be rectified once European states agree upon a common approach.
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