Yet the technology uses low-power, low-cost sensors and the device concept is small enough to clip on a belt.
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Thus, to test the concept in a low cost manner, she rented a food cart and started serving lunches in an outdoor mall in Boston.
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Since drilling wells is the only means of finding oil and natural gas, IDCs essentially amount to what any other industry would be able to deduct as a part of its cost of goods sold, a concept of accounting and tax law as old as the tax code itself.
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It's cost-effective because the design and concept development are all done at one time, rather than as separate processes for Gap and GapMaternity.
While the CPI at one time was the measure desired by the public, government efforts turned the CPI away from measuring the price changes in a fixed-weight basket of goods and services to a quasi-substitution-based basket of goods, which destroyed the concept of the CPI as a measure of the cost of living of maintaining a constant standard of living.
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One good concept or idea can be resold again and again with little incremental cost to the seller.
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The concept of depreciation is also credited to the railroad era, when railroad owners allocated the cost of their trains over time, but Rosenthal notes that slave owners were doing this before then.
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As chance would have it, the same week the costly new vehicle concept was revealed, the Navy Department was moving to cancel a Marine amphibious vehicle that cost a similar amount, mainly because the price-tag was too high.
The concept behind HSAs is to start with an insurance policy with a high annual deductible, which reduces the cost of the insurance substantially.
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