He also said a new law would make business complicated and costly for small sellers.
The traditional dependency on catalogs and brokers makes it very costly for small and medium sized suppliers to compete.
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They need to travel to interview people all over the country, pay for archival footage, add sound, music and graphics, and complete a thousand other small but costly tasks.
This introduces its own perverse incentives, particularly to sacrifice to broader political calculations the interests of the sickest and most costly, always a small minority not nearly fully aware of the scope of possible medical alternatives.
Planting and caring for trees in the desert has proven too costly to rely solely on small donations.
Despite holding comfortable majorities in both houses, her block in Congress had to establish a costly scheme of payments for small farmers to win a close vote in the lower house.
Fire drills can be costly, as teams are too small and spread across tasks to withstand too many alarms at once.
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That transition could take weeks, making even small design changes exorbitantly costly.
With new chip-based software, Nortel enables a cheaper semiconductor device to perform the function of a small Internet router, supplanting costly hardware of the sort Cisco sells.
Big firms are often keen on costly labour-market regulation because it kills small competitors.
See a doctor even for small issues to avoid bigger, costly problems down the line.
For now, the size of the bitcoin market is so small that it could be difficult or costly to move and exchange large amounts of illicit funds.
Charities' staff gripe about delays in getting supplies through customs, which imposes costly storage fees and has forced them to spend a small fortune on car hire.
We send in small-scale desalination equipment, which is also costly, technically complex, and limited in capacity.
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One of the responsibilities of running a small business includes how to insulate yourself from defending costly lawsuits from disgruntled employees.
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And for small and medium-sized businesses robots are generally too costly and too inflexible.
If you happen to work for a small or midsize employer, chances are that staying put can be a costly mistake.
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While large retailers and restaurants have made significant investments in costly mobile ordering, mobile checkout and customer engagement solutions in recent years, they've left small merchants searching for a way to compete.
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