Simply, OK, what has been spent to do this gives us the direct costs.
The direct costs for Europe's banks of either form of collapse might be bearable.
The CBO was asked to estimate the bill's direct costs to consumers in 2020.
And these are only the direct costs that are born by the lenders, the local community and the homeowner.
But going underground is an expensive proposition: The direct costs are much more than those associated with traditional overhead power lines.
If Google could give everyone a world-class electronic driver, it would drastically reduce the deaths, injuries and direct costs of accidents.
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Adam Rose, an economist at the University of Southern California, prefers to include only direct costs such as business interruption and property damage.
Second, an effective plan keeps energy affordable by appropriately balancing the direct costs of energy along with the indirect costs, such as government regulation.
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Confining the scope to direct costs may miss broader economic effects.
And by any measure, the direct costs themselves look quite small.
Paying for continued clean-up and restoration onshore means that BP's direct costs will still be hefty even after the operations at the well are scaled down.
The economic value of the health impacts was based on premature mortality, workdays lost, and other direct costs to the healthcare system resulting from emissions of PM2.5, NOx, and SO2.
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What makes the study's conclusions more plausible is that the authors used very conservative assumptions, only counting the direct costs to the health system and lost workdays of a pandemic.
In the U.S., the WEF notes, the avoidable indirect impact of chronic diseases, due for example to productivity losses through disability, unplanned absences and increased accidents, is four times the direct costs of healthcare coverage.
Also, whilst it may be easy to calculate the direct costs allocated to the education budget, the high attainment level at Dunshalt pays dividends back in areas that will never appear as a gain in Dunshalt's "cost per child" figures.
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Mr DeVoretz calculates that the rate of return for a doctor who gets an education at a first-rate Canadian university and then goes to work in the United States is around 45% on the direct costs of his or her education.
This improvement is principally due to higher auction and private sale commission revenues, partially offset by an increase in operating expenses that is due, in part, to higher incentive compensation costs, a higher level of direct costs consistent with the volume and composition of auction sales, and the cost of investments in strategic initiatives.
The direct financial costs of a Greek exit to the country's creditors are more manageable than they were, but they are still large.
The direct financial costs to industry can safely be said to be substantial even if they can not be estimated with precision at this time.
Each payment by direct deposit costs the U.S. about 10 cents.
M. resident, helped push a law giving studios a 15% rebate on their direct production costs in the state, applicable to the salaries of electricians--or big-budget stars.
Under HSTP the aim is to achieve structural efficiencies in three areas production, direct materials costs, and indirect costs, where current total costs are JPY 9 trillion (USD 113 billion).
Acquiring customers through direct mail costs 10 times more than acquiring them through a branch network, which means Citi's costs probably outweigh those of Chase, which operates five times as many U.S. branches.
They found that cardiac disease was the most expensive to treat - accounting for 44% of direct healthcare costs associated with weight problems - while back pain was the biggest cause of workplace absenteeism.
Can a society be capitalist and free market when health care is corporatist, with no direct connection between costs and benefits?
Many businesses will be numbed into thinking that they'll no longer be burdened by the direct health care costs of their workforces.
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