And rectifying the cost difference between aircraft-quality parts and avionics with those installed on even a premium sedan seems like a stretch.
He interviewed a consultant who suspects that this is made possible by a highly automated production process that will make the labor cost difference negligible.
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The cost difference is due in large part to a provision in the Senate bill that would "patch" for one year the Alternative Minimum Tax so that it doesn't start to hit middle- and upper-middle-income families.
More than 50, 000 individual prices are collected in each survey round, and a cost-of-living index is calculated from the price data to express the difference in the cost of living between any two cities.
And the idea that medical education is responsible for the difference in cost-efficiency is implausible at best.
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The difference in cost would be made up by the companies paying Ubisoft to put their ad in the game.
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First, actively-managed mutual funds cannot earn excess returns over index funds because in aggregate they earn the same as index funds, less the difference in cost.
If you'd rather trade up to an iPhone 4 rather than pocketing some cash and keeping the 3GS, you've got an option there, too: anyone who picked up a 3GS between May 7 and May 21 can preorder an iPhone 4 by June 21 and get the new phone for only the difference in cost, assuming you bring in your 3GS when you pick it up.
In that case its loss is roughly half the difference between production cost and revenues.
One major difference, beyond cost, is that the 100K strands are more difficult to handle and shape.
There is a 45 dollar difference in the cost of the games though.
The bank's net interest margin--the difference between its cost of capital and average loan rate--has fallen for five consecutive quarters, to 0.9%.
"For relatively low expenditure, you can make a big difference to the cost of your fuel bill, " says Sir Tony Hawkhead of Groundwork.
Private-payments companies threaten to take away the government's ability to control the money supply and benefit from seigniorage, the difference between the cost to produce the money and its face value.
Even assuming a start-up can develop a technology innovative enough to make a difference, the cost of indexing the Web--which now includes billions of pages--is far higher than it was a decade ago.
The group is disseminating its own counter-advertisement showing the cost to consumers of the difference between claimed and actual fuel economy, which can be viewed via the You Tube video at the bottom of this post.
Raymond Gibbons, a professor at the Mayo Clinic and the AHA's president, said that at the very least, Arcoxia's single benefit in terms of reducing ulcers is likely to come with a big difference in financial cost.
Sincere words to that effect cost nothing and can make the difference between disengagement and productivity.
There are a lot of things that don't cost money that could make a difference.
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We do need to adjust for purchasing power parity (PPP) or the difference in what things cost.
The difference between that added cost and your own estimate of the added value is what an economist would call waste.
Most are drawn by the vast amounts of unused capacity and the startling difference between its real cost and what the telephone giants charge.
Will the difference be worth the cost to upgrade?
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Yet the overall cost premium, based on the difference in absolute wages between the U.S. and China, is actually expanding, so labor arbitrage involving China and other low labor cost markets will likely persist.
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They manage members of the insurance companies, build the lists of approved drugs for manufacturers and reimburse the retail pharmacies for the difference between the true cost of a drug and the co-pay amount that a customer of a retail pharmacy plays.
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The difference is that this intervention cost only about a tenth as much to operate.
The only difference would be that the cost would then be borne directly by drivers in proportion to the number of miles they drive.
Another explanation for any difference between how much items cost and what actually appears on a credit card statement is Dynamic Currency Conversion.
If a chosen plan cost more, beneficiaries would pay the difference.
Gross profit is the difference between total revenue and cost of goods sold and for many small business owners this measure is intuitive and nothing new.
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