From a cost perspective, the shift to digital delivery of content could help Amazon avoid costly free shipping subsidies.

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To put that cost in perspective, Myriad Genetics, a Salt Lake City company that started out using the Mormon genealogies to find genes, charges thousands of dollars for its tests for breast cancer genes.

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Being able to do this from a cost efficiency and power perspective is a big part of everything.

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That puts the cost of petrol in perspective.

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From a market perspective, the cost and complexity looks simply too high.

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He said the cost to students of tuition fees should be put in perspective.

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To gain some perspective, the CBO projects social security to cost one trillion in 2018.

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From a management perspective, it requires minimal effort and no cost yet can be a highly effective motivator.

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However, from an institutional perspective there may also be a significant social cost to proceeding with too much vigor in cases that are questionable or overly ambitious.

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It will have some costs on the front end -- you buy a new boiler, or you get some insulation, or you get some new windows, that's going to have an initial cost, and the same is true from a government perspective.

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Compared with even five years, the cost of a startup has fallen dramatically from a hardware, software and development perspective.

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If investors focused on the economic cost of losses relative to the benefit of gains, they would likely change their perspective on performance evaluation.

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From an Internet retailers perspective the passage of the Marketplace Fairness Act would not only add layers of administration and cost to comply, but it could cut into their competitiveness with small businesses and brick-and-mortar retailers.

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