This will drop the cost of employer plans as those who do not purchase employer coverage while working are young and healthy and willing to take a risk with no coverage to save a buck.
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The real shakeup for some might just be the new price points, which drop the cost by a large amount for offices that don't need more than a slice of what the all-out Datacenter edition has to offer.
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At SunPower, we are committed to drop the installed cost of a solar system by 50% by 2012.
"People in Zurich haven't seen" a commensurate drop in the cost of living.
Every ten years there is a hundredfold drop in the cost of computing, leading to a new paradigm in computing.
Every 10 years there is a hundredfold drop in the cost of computing, leading to a new paradigm in computing.
Abrams, senior fellow for middle eastern studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, said President Obama has a better chance of effectively employing sanctions against Iran than President Bush did due to two factors: the drop in cost of oil and the possibility of increased cooperation from Russia and China.
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The reasons for the profit drop include a jump in the cost of restricted stock units in the first quarter, as well as higher data center construction and marketing costs.
In the context of the whole economy the cost would be a drop in the ocean.
"I would entertain another 2x to 3x drop in cost down the road, " says Van Den Berg.
Only 10% of day nurseries and pre-school managers who responded to the survey said they received adequate funding to cover the cost of these free places - a sharp drop from the 38% who, in a similar survey in May this year, said the cost was fully covered.
The Prison Service has agreed to drop legal action against the union over the cost of unofficial strike action by officers last year.
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And earlier this week the British Retail Consortium's survey showed an increase of over 15% in the cost of retail crime alongside a drop in the proportion of crime reported by retailers to the police from 48% to 16%.
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If the cost does drop, the market "verges on being insatiable, " says Jay Flatley, chief executive of Illumina, the leading maker of DNA sequencers.
Clackmannanshire saw the biggest fall in prices, with a 19% quarterly drop and compared with a year ago the cost of a home is 13.7% lower.
But perhaps the most interesting item to note is that after its recent price drop, Nintendo has been selling the 3DS below cost, causing them to lose money on every sale.
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And with most of the victims over 50, the cost will soon drop.
The cost of producing electricity from the sun is expected to drop by 50% by 2015.
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The reason is not just the cost of setting up the electric plants but also the drop in oil prices that brought down its profits from the LPG business.
Hydrogen research is a drop in the bucket compared with the annual cost of, say, engineering new vehicles and getting plants tooled up to build them.
During that time, the cost of Lipitor would only drop a little bit, which would be bad for consumers.
According to a recent report by the Foundation for Government Accountability, the Vacationland experienced no drop in the uninsured rate following the 2002 expansion, and the program suffered from cost overruns and higher than expected enrollment.
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Media in India are discussing police violence against women, the announcement of a low-cost vaccine to fight diarrhoea, a drop in inflation and Bollywood's presence at the Cannes Film Festival.
The cost of the event, no matter how many millions, is still a drop in the bucket for the company.
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Brian Strutton, from the GMB union, said Lord Hutton had not taken into account that caps on pay rises and job losses in the public sector meant the cost of pensions as a share of overall GDP would still fall despite the drop in economic output.
The latter's batteries can be charged off the electrical grid (which is almost entirely powered by non-oil fuels) and operate for upwards of twenty miles without using a drop of gasoline, and for a fraction of the cost of oil-based fuels.
One argument carried through many of these articles deserves more scrutiny: the notion that the effective cost of auto transportation will drop so dramatically that there will be a substantial shift away from car ownership to reliance on third-party fleets, available on demand.
He says the drop in estimated earnings caused by bad weather issues is to be expected because of the high fixed-cost in maintaining the helicopters and other associated expenses.
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The higher cost means gourmet coffee drinkers aren't seeing the full benefit of a steep price drop in the past year.
While rare earths are expensive to use in producing several products used daily, the drop in demand does not come from an alternate substance that can be as effective for a fraction of the cost.
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