The story spends extensive time on deciphering particular bills, using agents to get line items changed, and lowering the per-item cost.
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Whenever you purchase a gluten-free food item, compare the cost to a similar item with gluten.
You do need to worry about some things that are tailor-made and that are sources of competitive advantage, but anything that is a cost item that can be turned into the cloud gives you more money to be innovative to do new things.
Calculate the total cost of an item, including shipping and tax, when determining the lowest price.
The more items or more complicated the item, the higher the cost.
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You can plug in the actual cost for an item, if you have a receipt (or can get a copy of one from the previous owner), or pick among price ranges the software generates based on national market surveys.
First, the cumulative cost of any ongoing item is going to look huge if it is projected out over a half-century.
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Valve is beloved by its consumers for their vast array of free updates and map packs, and the move seemed to signal a shift to a more modern model of microtransactions aimed at players who wanted every item they could get in the game at any cost.
If you give an item to a charity auction, you usually get to deduct the lesser of (a) the item's fair market value or (b) your cost.
Our Italian shippers say the American authorities might at random choose to examine every item in the container and if they do we bear the extra cost of re-packing and resealing.
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Yet, though Argentina devotes only a third as much, per citizen, as Chile to military spending, that is still the largest item in its federal budget, a quarter of it, the huge cost of state pensions excluded.
This one item alone added over a year to the project timeline and significantly increased its final cost.
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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