How long before video games join the long list of other common addictions with their associated social and personal costs?
Andrew Dilnot believes that he has cracked the intellectual problem with his proposal for a cap on the personal costs of care.
"I have no doubt that their actions on the night saved many people from being injured, at quite some personal costs to themselves, " he said.
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Keeping your personal costs low is a hallmark of sustainable investing.
In terms of personal costs, ObamaCare again misses the mark.
"The original decision of the OFT to investigate the private motor insurance market came after insurer claims that motor insurance premiums had risen by almost 40% to compensate for the increased costs of personal injury claims (whiplash) and other costs including those of credit hire, " said Martin Andrews of the CHO.
Ditto for folks who write off personal expenses as business costs.
That means he pays his accountant to make complex allocations dividing the condo's mortgage interest, property taxes and other costs between his personal use and rental use.
And to avoid bureaucrats blocking these requests, we will introduce a rule that any request will be successful unless it can be proved that it would lead to overwhelming costs or demonstrable personal privacy or national security concerns.
Aside from the obvious fact that any such tax would be passed along to consumers in the form of even higher fuel costs, such an artificial increase to the operating costs of every personal, business and construction vehicle used in the country would have a chilling effect on our fragile economic recovery.
Or the patient is given market incentives to consider the full costs of the health care he chooses to consume, in which case the patient weighs the personal benefits of his health care against the costs of that care.
Personal accounts could also cut the costs of monitoring whether the unemployed are actually looking for work.
But this plan expands personal choice and increases competition to keep costs down.
New Yorkers cite personal health, job stability and housing costs as sources of stress more often than those across the country.
Women are more worried than men, in terms of their personal finances, the economy, work, housing costs and job stability, according to the survey.
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This does not please personal-injury lawyers, who argue that fixed costs are likely to lag behind the pace of legal inflation (that is precisely the point, of course).
For example, some researchers find that the economy-wide cost of a carbon tax would be considerably lower if the revenue were used to reduce marginal tax rates on labor, capital, or personal income than if it were used to offset costs imposed on low-income households.
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"It jump-started our business, " says Mr. Godwin, who did not use his home equity but did tap personal savings and friends and family to cover other initial costs.
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For these women, most of whom never envisioned having to choose between careers and children, the costs of workplace inflexibility are up close and personal -- diverted dreams and forgone earnings and independence.
Extraordinary security incurs extraordinary financial costs and, more importantly, the loss of personal liberty.
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Rising costs will also encourage hard thinking about whether a personal and tailored touch is needed.
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GPPs spread the administrative costs which people would face if they took out personal pensions on their own.
In addition, these systems monitor electric system parameters and pricing information to manage consumers energy costs, comfort, and health according to end-users personal preferences.
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Although there is usually a personal financial hit to get well, it is generally accepted that it costs society a lot more when substance abuse goes unchecked, with alcohol abuse alone costing upwards of 220 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
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Illegal personal trading by mutual fund portfolio managers, traders and other senior investment personnel costs investors billions.
Analytics firms and health insurers say they obey medical-privacy regulations, and employers never see the staff's personal health profiles but only an aggregate picture of their health needs and expected costs.
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Costs aside, the decision to rent or buy a home is very personal.
The overall increase in financial scrutiny, coupled with this new, up-close and personal tie between executive and the corporate information being disseminated by corporations--and the costs associated with it--has sparked an ongoing debate in boardrooms across the country.
Although, CVS loses out on the front-door sales of cosmetics and other personal care goods by mail facility, it stands to make higher margins on account of lower costs incurred on servicing the consumer.
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