It has already listed the location, condition and estimated cost of repair for each known sign.

BBC: Fingerpost sign

Many utilities lack the depth of data needed to implement more cost-effective asset-management systems like condition-based monitoring and maintenance methods, which utilities in Europe and Asia are adopting to enhance the efficient use of capital and reduce operations and maintenance costs.

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The patent body allowed Natco to legally make and sell the low-cost version of Bayer's drug on the condition that it pay a royalty of about 6% of the net sales from the drug to the German company.

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For example, the government, as a condition of bearing part or all of the cost of reducing the principal on a given loan, might have insisted on receiving some share of the future appreciation in the value of the property in question, perhaps by issuing a second mortgage that had to be paid off upon a sale.

NEWYORKER: Replay

Limiting redundancies was a condition of privatisation last year, but at the cost of low productivity.

ECONOMIST: Deutsche Telekom

Many studies point to the ubiquity of high-calorie, low-cost processed foods and drinks as one of the major drivers of this condition.

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The economic argument, which as readers know was initially a conservative and Republican idea going back to the early 1990s, is that insurers can afford the cost of care for the sick, such as those who already have a health condition, with the premiums paid for young and healthy people who are unlikely to require much, if any, care.

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Private developers will not build low-cost housing in the absence of subsidies, and local governments are generally in a precarious financial condition.

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