As a consequence, technically, seniors were not eligible for a Cost of Living Adjustment, to have it go up because prices did not go up in the aggregate.
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Meanwhile, another investor implemented a more bullish trade in the September contract today involving the purchase of calls at the 45.0 strike and the sale of calls at the 50.0 strike for a net cost of 1.05.
For someone who has been building up a pool of savings for a lifetime, the cost of extraordinarily low interest rates can make some of the proposed changes in the federal tax code look like chump change.
It was "eye floaters, " microscopic grey globs that cast shadows on the retina, that inspired California Institute of Technology professor Changhuei Yang to create a lensless microscope that aims to change the way scientists go about diagnosing diseases and developing new drugs--for a fraction of the cost of a conventional microscope.
Paul Stevens of Chatham House points out that in the early 1950s transport accounted for a third of the cost of Persian Gulf oil shipped to America.
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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.
Plus, you can earn an associate degree from a local community college for a fraction of the cost of a four-year degree at a university.
In 2006 it produced 872 movies compared with 485 major feature films in the U.S. (although for a fraction of the cost), according to a global cinema survey conducted by the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS).
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But, of course, if Portes is right, a rise in the cost of money for George Osborne would not be a mark of failure - because it would be a corollary of our escape from recession.
It's designed to lift a pound of payload to orbit for a fraction of the cost of sending it up on the shuttle.
M-Farm, a service that gives farmers access to market prices for the cost of a text message and allows them to group together to buy and sell products, has won several supporters and awards.
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For jobs are a cost of doing something, not a benefit of having something done.
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"Deemed export controls have very limited efficacy for a relatively high cost of compliance, " says Claude Canizares, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's vice president for research.
Glas Cymru's proposals will cut Welsh Water's cost of capital, its single biggest cost (accounting for a third of customers' bills).
Therein lays one of the key shortcomings of traditional accounting: there is no allowance for a change in the cost of capital in the accountant's methodology, even though it is incredibly relevant to an asset's value.
You can shell out millions of dollars for your few seconds of traditional Super Bowl exposure, but a clever manipulation of social media and narrative can give you similar results for a fraction of the cost.
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" Nobel Laureate Steven Weinberg calls manned missions "an incredible waste of money" and argues that "for the cost of putting a few people on a very limited set of locations on Mars we could have dozens of unmanned, robotic missions roving all over Mars.
In the U.S. the main federal subsidy currently pays for 30% of the cost for a residential system.
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And in many ways the challenge of changing HP comes at a cost, for now, of owning an incoherent company.
Inside the shop, all manner of dainty cups, saucers and cake stands sell for a fraction of what they would cost in other parts of London.
Hefei offers a well-educated work force, sometimes for about a third of the cost of hiring in Shanghai.
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In return, it gets a portion of the silver for the life of the mine at a fixed cost.
An obvious example of out of pocket expenses relating to providing services for a charitable organization is the cost of transportation.
This micro view of customer economics provides a foundation for cost-benefit analysis of investment decisions aimed at building stronger customer relationships.
It may also offer a free credit monitoring service to help check your account and pay for the initial cost of a security freeze.
The study further found that the additional costs to seniors would vary from region to region, with areas of high per-capita Medicare spending seeing a cost boost for 80 percent of Medicare recipients.
The nostalgia is understandable: that pact was followed by a long period of strength for the yen and a boom for much of Asia fuelled by deceptively low-cost dollar borrowing and big inflows of Japanese investment.
He says offering up a fraction of those cost in prize money for a successful prototype supports talent outside of NASA and saving the bottom line.
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