"The days when they could just toss out the 100, 200, 400m euros a year, which is what Formula One costs those big companies, I think they are finished, " he said.
Adding capacity and dropping costs is a formula for an incendiary rise in information traffic.
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While the formula helps investors compare specific costs, it doesn't tell the whole story.
Complicated rules allow housing costs exceeding a formula to be excluded from income if reimbursed by an employer, or deducted if not.
As insurers throw auditors, fraud-detection, and insurance agents overboard, I fear that health care costs will increase more than the formula suggests.
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First, the formula milk that could substitute for breast milk costs money.
The new regulations have doubled the life span of a Formula One engine in an attempt to cut costs and reduce speeds, forcing teams to use the same ones for two successive races.
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Though that formula would not keep up 100% with rising health costs, Medicare does suffer an enormous long term financing gap that must be closed in some way.
At its simplest, the formula is meant to compare revenues generated by customers to the costs associated with acquiring them.
Financing for the program is shared with the states under a federal formula, with the Feds paying about 60% of the costs on average.
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The FIA has given Mosley the power to negotiate directly with the Formula One Teams Association over proposed measures to cut F1 team costs in half by 2010.
This formula has worked for RightNow.com, which promises to cut your call-center costs with a Web-hosted service.
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