Taking out an extended warranty may seem like the sensible option, but recent research conducted by the OFT has shown extended warranties can cost up to half the purchase price of some appliances.
Yet the most disquieting news was about the amount of credit being extended rather than its cost.
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The company that took over the parts business in North America for the bankrupt automaker is encouraging dealers to sell those owners an extended service contract at cost.
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Just last year, in order to get the unemployment benefits extended, at great cost to the federal budget, the Republicans were able to leverage an extension of tax cuts to the wealthy, which drove up the deficit even more.
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Vincentric looks at the cost of zero-deductible, bumper-to-bumper extended-warranty claims to calculate the average cost owners can expect to pay for repairs.
Increased and extended unemployment benefits reduce the cost of failing to find a new job.
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It is one of ruthless cost control and mercenary treatment to providers of labor (workers and staff) and capital (not just by beating down bank loan rates but also, primarily, by demanding from suppliers extended low or no-cost trade credit).
Establishing an extended human presence on the moon could vastly reduce the cost of further space exploration, making possible ever more ambitious missions.
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If for any reason the loan approval process is delayed and your interest rate lock-in period needs to be extended, it can be, although there is a cost involved.
Other companies have to assess their own cost of downtime and the long-term effect extended downtime would have on the company.
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She rails against trade agreements with China, claims that 42, 000 more textile jobs will be lost unless quotas on Chinese imports are extended and pledges never to sign a trade deal that would cost any South Carolinian jobs.
As in Thailand, under-capitalised small banks were over-extended, especially in property, and were hurt by the mounting cost of repaying foreign-currency loans.
Based on past experience, almost all will be extended after some debate about how or whether to pay for their budgetary cost.
After a provision has been extended three times, it should either be made permanent (and its cost fully offset) or it should be erased from the books.
The Congressional Budget Office, which lumps the payroll tax cut with extended jobless benefits in its analysis, has warned that eliminating both would cost the economy 0.7 percentage points of growth and 800, 000 jobs in 2013.
Cost-cutting plans to reduce street lighting across East Sussex are being extended to Lewes.
Accommodative monetary policy in developed economies and an extended low-rate environment will both pump up demand for gold and reduce the opportunity cost of holding it as an investment, reads the note.
The AMT patch and the Bush tax cuts have been extended without offsetting tax increases or spending cuts, in part justified by the relatively modest budgetary cost of a short-term extension.
The realistic scenario is that Obama, hand extended to Damascus, is setting himself up for a sucker punch--potentially at great cost not only to America and Israel but to other democratic states and any democratic dissidents inside Syria who have not yet vanished into the care of Assad's secret police.
Already, the Affordable Care Act has extended coverage to thousands of young adults, and has increased access to HIV testing for millions of women without cost sharing.
The growth and expansion of Mahabalipuram, Chennai are extended to major areas of the city, so home dreamers are looking to buy the residential apartments at an affordable cost.
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